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Un cœur en hiver

Original title: Un coeur en hiver
  • 1992
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  • 1h 45m
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7.6/10
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Emmanuelle Béart in Un cœur en hiver (1992)
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Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.

  • Director
    • Claude Sautet
  • Writers
    • Claude Sautet
    • Jacques Fieschi
    • Jérôme Tonnerre
  • Stars
    • Daniel Auteuil
    • Emmanuelle Béart
    • André Dussollier
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Claude Sautet
    • Writers
      • Claude Sautet
      • Jacques Fieschi
      • Jérôme Tonnerre
    • Stars
      • Daniel Auteuil
      • Emmanuelle Béart
      • André Dussollier
    • 77User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 16 wins & 13 nominations total

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    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    • Stéphane
    Emmanuelle Béart
    Emmanuelle Béart
    • Camille
    André Dussollier
    André Dussollier
    • Maxime
    Elizabeth Bourgine
    • Hélène
    Brigitte Catillon
    Brigitte Catillon
    • Régine
    Myriam Boyer
    Myriam Boyer
    • Mme. Amet
    Jean-Claude Bouillaud
    Stanislas Carré de Malberg
    Stanislas Carré de Malberg
    • Brice
    Dominique De Williencourt
    • Christophe
    Jeffrey Grice
    Luben Yordanoff
    Nanou Garcia
    François Domange
    Van Doude
    Van Doude
    Jacques Villa
    Galaxie Barbouth
    Benoît Bellal
    Pierre Cheremetieff
    • Director
      • Claude Sautet
    • Writers
      • Claude Sautet
      • Jacques Fieschi
      • Jérôme Tonnerre
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    simon-118

    Everything that is wonderful about French cinema

    No-one can portray emotion in cinema as well as the French, as this movie proves. Auteil is wonderful as the stoic and enigmatic central figure, a man of few words and even fewer facial expressions who is both fascinating and exasperating. Emmanuel Beart is surely one of the most beautiful figures to grace the screen; her eyes say all the things her words fail to. One of the many qualities to admire in this film is that what the characters do not say is more important that what they do, and rather than being vague and ambiguous, which is a polite way of often saying muddled and obscure in movies, everything is confidently conveyed through expressions and actions. This is a film that knows exactly how much to say and what about. There are some brilliantly subtle clues to Auteil's character. "Have you ever been in love?" Beart asks."probably," he replies and nothing more is said. yet despite it's casual nature we remember that comment and without any more help we conclude that this may be the real reason for his isolation now, a desperate attempt at self-preservation. The music is brilliantly chosen, and the camera draws things out of the frame naturally...Auteil touching Beart for the first time when crossing the road, the wonderful coffee shop scene, that slap from Maxim. There is also some excellent humour, especially in the argument between the old couple Auteil witnesses from outside their house. It is interesting to compare this film with Three Colours: Blue which I saw the same evening, a more explicit depiction of isolation, equally powerful through different methods.
    10riccardo72

    A great movie! (9/10)

    If you are after car chasings and unreal fight/action scenes, don't even consider reading further and even less watching this movie.

    This movie is about human psychology and love. These characters are tormented by a feeling of inadequacy, by strong unresolved love, and deep affection. It's a modern greek tragedy. It reminds us of the real human nature, unlinear, never simple. Forget the white/black type of hollywood movies. The real world is not like that. We are not just good, we are not just bad, we can be strong and weak at the same time. This movie manages to remind us this in the context of a difficult love story accompanied by one of the most beautiful scores ever.

    The whole movie seems to have been written and built around this sad, unusual and beautiful music by Ravel (piano sonata for trio).

    If you are an intelligent person you'll love the poetry and soft touch of this movie.
    10kevhaw

    Beart's performance is heart-wrenching!

    Un Coeur En Hiver is a deeply moving film. Beart's achingly beautiful performance as a violinist who becomes infatuated with an emotionally stunted craftsman, is breathtaking to behold. The craftsman, played by Auteuil, displays an almost unbelievable emptiness of emotion, as he rejects the "unrejectable" Camile(Beart)! The soundtrack of this movie conveys as much emotion as the lead characters do, and is hauntingly beautiful to the ear. This movie is a must for Beart fans! Just seeing those beautiful intense eyes is reason enough to view this film.
    Eelsnake

    The Violinist-Psychologist not quite in Love

    The plot revolves around the 'love triangle' of Camille, Stephan, and Maxine. Camille is a young up and coming concert violinist, and Stephan and Maxine are violin craftsmen. Camille is one of their many clients. The main character of this film, Stephan--played by Daniel Auteuil--is brilliant. He is a good looking and quiet man who knows what he wants and is secure in this: solitude--regardless of the amorous advances of Camille, the beautiful and brilliant young violinist who winds up dating his business partner Maxime, and whom he could seduce very easily. Many people analyzing Stephan's character would immediately say that he is sociopathic, deranged, insecure, or whatever. But Stephan is actually fully in control of his life throughout the whole film. He is not aware of fleeting passions like infatuation because he does not exist outside of passion: He is passion incarnate as he is very in tune with what he wants and is skillful at asserting his desires; so much so that those who encounter him become very jarred. His personna functions as a mirror that reflects other people's neuroses and fears back at them instead of absorbing them into itself and thus becoming poisoned. In this way, he's almost like a freelance mobile psychoanalyst passing through different bistros and concert halls in Paris, and disrupting the otherwise 'normal' relationships of those he encounters. The psychological tension throughout the film is thick from the start, and reaches a point of absolute saturation at its apogee. The viewer cannot help but find himself emotionally invested in the plot. The background score of the film is beautiful.
    howard.schumann

    A very sad film but beautifully realized

    Brother, can you spare a heart?

    In Un Coeur en Hiver, the late Claude Sautet looks into the heart of Stephane, a master violin craftsman (Daniel Auteuil), and finds only ice. Stephane is an observer of life, not a participant. The film reveals the consequences of his emotional isolation, of what he has to give up in order to maintain his solitude.

    Un Coeur en Hiver is as far from a typical Hollywood romance as Casablanca is from L'Avventura. The film is almost a revisionist portrayal of the usual debonair French romantic lover. While the lovely sonatas and trios of Maurice Ravel form a haunting background, there is a lifeless quality to Stephane and ennui is a palpable presence throughout.

    Stephane seems ready to leap into a passionate relationship with a beautiful young violinist, Camille (Emmanuelle Beart) after Maxim, his partner for many years (also in love with Camille), introduces her to Stephane. Stephane, however, is unable to relate to Maxim's friendship or to his growing attraction to Camille and becomes distant and manipulative.

    Held back by his reluctance to take risks, his relationship with Camille provides him with the forms of intimacy but without the substance. No pat psychological interpretation is provided but is left to the viewer to interpret. The camera is reserved and intimate. For the most part, emotions are conveyed through glances, expressions, and silences rather than dialogue.

    The scene where Camille finally explodes out of frustration over Stephane's emotional distance, however, is powerful, yet is not enough to shake the reluctant lover from his hiding place. At a restaurant, Camille tells Stephanie, "He says he likes music because "music is dreams". "Poor jerk", she blurts out, "You know nothing about dreams". Pointing to his heart, she says, "There is nothing in there, nothing. No imagination, no heart, no balls". Stephane simply sits there with a half grin on his face. I could really feel Camille's frustration in trying to pluck fruit from a barren tree.

    Auteuil's outstanding performance makes him a likable figure, a really sweet guy but a very sad one. I felt repeatedly like shaking him from his lethargy and exposing him to joy and the rhythmic beauty of life, perhaps adding a little Mozart to his Ravel.

    At the end, however, there is some character development. Stephane finally recognizes that "there is something lifeless inside of me." As his friends depart, he is left sitting alone at a restaurant table, poignantly feeling his loneliness. Perhaps this insight is the beginning of his transformation. A very sad film but beautifully realized.

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    • Trivia
      Emmanuelle Béart learned to play the violin for the part.
    • Connections
      Featured in Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Musique extraite des Sonates et Trio
      de Maurice Ravel

      Durand S.A. Editions Musicales et A.R.I.M.A. Ltd

      Direction musicale Philippe Sarde

      Enregistrée aux Studios Guillaume Tell par Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Howard Shelley,

      Keith Harvey

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    • Release date
      • September 2, 1992 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • A Heart in Winter
    • Filming locations
      • Rue Beaurepaire, Paris 10, Paris, France(Camille and Stéphane under the rain)
    • Production companies
      • Film Par Film
      • Cinéa
      • Orly Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,605,437
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,605,437
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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