Comme Quand on Etait Beau

Comme Quand on Etait Beau

Comme Quand on Etait Beau

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Actor: Jacques Brel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Int'l

DVD Reviews of Comme Quand on Etait Beau

DVD Review: What songs you get when you buy these 3 DVDs
Summary: 5 Stars

Here's what you're buying when you get this 3-DVD set:

DVD 1 total time: 152 minutes 51 seconds

1959 : Magazine de la chanson (INA) - director: Marcel Cravenne
La valse ? mille temps

1977-2003 (Fondation Brel) - director: France Brel
La cath?drale

1962 : Club Domino (AVRO) - director: Thijs Chanowski
Les pr?noms de Paris - Les paum?s du petit matin - Rosa - La dame patronnesse - Madeleine - Les bourgeois - L'ivrogne - Le moribond - Les Flamandes - Ne me quitte pas - La valse ? mille temps

1962 : 9 000 000 (RTBF) - director: Roy Beeckmans
Quand maman reviendra

1963 : Discorama (INA) - director: Ren? Lucot
Les vieux

1964 : Le temps de la chance (INA) - r?alisateur : Jean-Pierre Marchand
Mathilde

1964 : Discorama (INA) - director: Jean-Pierre Marchand
Les bonbons

1966 : Midi-Vari?t?s (INA-Marseille) - director: Charles Paolini
Mon enfance - H? ! m'man (new) - Le plat pays - Madeleine

1966 : Sp?cial Brel ? Discorama (INA) - director: Raoul Sangla
La chanson de Jacky - Ces gens-l?

1966 : Brel renonce ? la sc?ne (INA-Actualit?s)
La bi?re

1977-2003 (Fondation Brel) - director: France Brel
Jojo (unpublished version)

1967 : Le temps des loisirs (INA) - director: Jean Manceau
Fils de...

1968 : Jacques Brel (INA) - director: Alain Dhenaut
Regarde bien, petit - L'?clusier - Vesoul - Je suis un soir d'?t? - La qu?te

1969 : Le ch?teau des chansons (INA) - director: Pierre Badel
Le petit chemin (unpublished version)

1973 : extrait du film "Le Far-West" (Pouchenel) - director: Jacques Brel
L'enfance

DVD 2 total time: 141 minutes 46 seconds

1958 : 36 chandelles (INA) - director: R. Iglesis
Quand on n'a que l'amour

1960 : Lichtjes van de Schelde (VRT) - director: Kris Betz
Il pleut

1960 : Rendez-vous avec (INA) - director: Claude Barma
Seul - On n'oublie rien - Je ne sais pas - Marieke

1961 : Music-Hall Parade du Moulin de la Galette (INA) - director: Gilles Margaritis
L'ivrogne

1961 : Toute la chanson (INA) - director: Robert Valey
Les paum?s du petit matin

1962 : Discorama (INA) - director: Philippe Ducrest
Le plat pays

1962 : scopitone (Davis Boyer) - director: Alexandre Tarta
Rosa

1963 : Club Domino (AVRO) - director: Bob Rooyens
Bruxelles - La statue - La Fanette - Le pendu (in?dit) - Les fen?tres

1963 : Journal T?l?vis? (INA-Actualit?s)
La Toison d'or (in?dit)

1963 : Discorama (INA) - director: Ren? Lucot
J'aimais

1964 : 7 jours du monde (INA-Actualit?s)
Le dernier repas

1965 : Jacques Brel Optreden 1964 Huis met de Pilaren (VPRO) - director: Kampen Van Warry
Au suivant - Le tango fun?bre

1966 : Carrefour (TSR-Actualit?s) - director: Claude Charbon
Madeleine

1966 : Palmar?s des chansons (INA) - director: Roger Pradines
Le cheval - Les vieux - La chanson de Jacky - Ne me quitte pas - Amsterdam - Mon enfance - Mathilde - Ces gens-l? - Jef - Les bonbons 67

1968 : Journal t?l?vis? (RTBF) - director: J. Juin
L'homme de la Mancha

1968 : ? l'affiche du monde (INA) - director: Robert Manthoulis
Vesoul

1977-2003 (Fondation Brel) - director: France Brel
Avec ?l?gance (new)

DVD 3 total time: 129 minutes 20 seconds

1959 : Music-Hall Parade (INA) - director: Gilles Margaritis
Ne me quitte pas - Les Flamandes

1961 : Discorama (INA) - director: Pierre Badel
L'ivrogne

1961 : Brel ? Montmartre (Davis Boyer) - director: Jean Guillon
Au printemps - Sur la place - Ne me quitte pas - La valse ? mille temps - Les singes - Quand on n'a que l'amour

1961 : Toute la chanson (INA) - director: Marcel Cravenne
Le moribond

1963 : Les raisins verts (INA) - director: Jean-Christophe Averty
Les toros

1964 : Discorama (INA) - director: Jean-Pierre Marchand
Jef - Mathilde

1965 : Carrefour (TSR-Actualit?s)
La Fanette

1965 : Format 16/20 (RTBF) - director: L?o Quoilin
Les vieux - Les bonbons - Les bigotes - Le plat pays - Madeleine

1965 : Chanson pour un ami (INA) - director: Fran?ois Chatel
Place de la Contrescarpe (new)

1966 : Cocktail Vari?t?s (INA) - director: Alain Boudet
Ces gens-l?

1977-2003 (Fondation Brel) - director: Fr?d?ric Rossif
Mai 40 (new)

1966 : Panorama (INA-Actualit?s)
Adieu aux foules : Brel & Jazy

1969 : extraits du film Mon oncle Benjamin (Gaumont) - director: Edouard Molinaro
Buvons un coup (new) - Les porteurs de rapi?res (new) - Mourir pour mourir (new)

1977-2003 (Pouchenel / RTBF / VRT / Barclay) - director: Jacques Brel / Jean Allaert / France Brel / Christophe Acker
L'amour est mort (new)

1963 : Il ?tait une fois la t?l? (RTBF) - director: Serge Leroy
Pierre et le loup

DVD Review: "Too Expensive" But Worth Every Penny of It!
Summary: 5 Stars

This 3 DVD set sells now for about $140 from Amazon or about $100 from other "Amazon Stores". Man, that's "too high"! I think "The Brel Foundation" and the music publisher should make a "normal profit" but the prices that I just found on Amazon seem too high to me. But, if my relative were Jacques Brel, I can't say I wouldn't try to sell at a price of "whatever the market will bear."

But the above gripe now having been registered, this set is "worth it" if you enjoy great singing from a now deceased French singer of the first caliber. And, this being video, you get to see him actually perform on stage for about 7.5 hours! From this perspective "it's a good deal" because where else are you going to be able to enjoy M. Brel's artistry? And, it IS "artistry". He is a wonderful "singing actor" of the first caliber. Plus, he wrote many of the songs himself; and he is the VERY best interpreter of his own songs I have ever seen or heard up to this point in time---no other singer even comes close to the dramatic intensity of M. Brel. So, all in all, I withdraw my "gripe" above about the increasing price of the set and must say, "Get 'em while their available". If you haven't both seen and heard the artistry of this great talent, take the plunge and buy a CD or, even better, this DVD set. I think you'll be very glad you did! Honestly! Email:boland7214@aol.

DVD Review: Astonishing - the finest music DVD I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been listening to Brel's music for 30 years but had never seen a single clip of him performing. After this time to suddenly have 7.5 hours of him walking, talking and singing is amazing. I was totally unprepared for the extraordinary mobile face and the almost vaudeville performances - eg the hand movements.

And some of the singing is breathtaking, indescribably brilliant. To mention just one track, the intensity of Ne me quitte pas at the opening of volume 3 is completely devastating. Here is a poet and performer teetering on the edge of madness and despair. It rips you apart.

Unreservedly recommended (though a literal English subtitling of the lyrics would add to the pleasure.)

DVD Review: Spellbinding!! 7 1/2 Hours of Jacques Brel is not Enough
Summary: 5 Stars

For people who can't get enough of Jacques Brel this three DVD Box set is not enough. Only four different versions of "Ne me Quitte Pas", four of "Madeleine", three each of "L'Ivrogne", "Ces Gens La," " Mathilde," two each of "Rosa", "Les Bonbons," "La Valse ? Mille Temps" "Les Paum?s de Petit Matin" , "Le Plat Pays" and "Chanson de Jacky."
So, viewing a lot of these together, almost all in black and white, does leave one wishing for more variety. Brel was not big on improvisation. More like a classical musician than a jazz artist, once he decided on the words of a song and their accompanying gestures, that was it. Yet he poured so much of his own fire into each performance it seemed fresh and full each time.
Then 5 1/2 stars for the impeccable Jacques Brel and 4 stars for the people who put this set together, givng us so many repetitions and English subtitles for the interviews but not for the songs. While many of us English speakers stumble along in French Jacques runs and flies. While much can be lost in translation, even more can be lost in lack of translation. It is impossible to know Brel without understanding his words. Here's hoping that the next 7 1/2 hours comes complete with subtitles as good as the ones in the interviews. Thanks to these we can catch such lines we may otherwise have missed like:
"A head gets hit so many times before it stays on your shoulders."
"A saint is a fool who went to mass."
"Girls hope to meet Prince Charming. Princes are not charming."
So many surprises on these discs! The late '60s videos of "Regarde bien Petit" and "L'Eclusier", "Vesoul" "Je suis un Soir d'Ete" primitive and contrived, but it's still great to see Jacques lip-synching these songs. In color, photo collages by Jacques' daughter France Brel to the unpublished 1977 songs give us lots of ocean and sailing, a refreshing change from the concert hall and lights of the T.V. cameras. Jacques films are referred to with musical excerpts from "Mon Oncle Benjamin", and "Franz" with Barbara is the background for "L'Amour est Mort." An extract from "Le Far West" gives us the beautiful song "L' Enfance"
Most interesting is the depth, honesty and liveliness of Jacques in interview. We see him creating songs like "Les Singes" and "Quand Maman Reviendra" , retiring from music hall side by side with a retiring champion athelete, riding in a car, eating, performing "Mon Enfance" complete with admitted mistakes 36 hours after its creation, and at his home in Belgium.
We see him in cabarets in the late 1950's, the audience perplexed, disturbed but entranced. Some smile knowingly, others remain stiff, amazed. We see him with bonbons in his hand, in a toreador costume, with a rope around his neck singing "Le Pendu." Though there is some overlap with other Brel videos most of the material is new , nowhere else to be found.
For instance, the magical film short "Brel ? Montmartre" made in 1961, exactly the year Dylan came to Greenwich Village. Young Brel, Montmartre in the Spring-- Magnifique!
The last disc ends with a reading of 'Pierre et le Loup". With Jacques at the height of his handsomeness combining boyish charm with rakish sex appeal it's hard to know whether he's Peter or the wolf.
For the fans of grand Jacques, the lovers of chanson, English speaking francophiles or students of French, for singer-songwriters everywhere this set is a gem.
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DVD Review: Astounding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I picked up this 3 DVD set in Paris at a FNAC in December, 2003. It's simply amazing--lots of interviews, cabaret performances, and staged "music videos." Simply amazing. Don't miss it.

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