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starring: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Élisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillondirected by: Claude Sautet
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302973570
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302973570
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: March 05, 1996
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 3677
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 04, 1993
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Daniel Auteuil (Manon of the Spring) plays Stephane, the curiously diffident coowner of an exclusive violin brokerage and repair shop. A brilliant technician, Stephane can make any instrument live up to its promise, yet he is emotionally remote himself, disconnected from passionate experience. His partner, Maxime (André Dussollier), lacks Stephane's gifts but is rich in personality and desire. When Maxime's new lover, a violinist named Camille (Emmanuelle Béart), is drawn to Stephane's still waters, the latter is briefly moved, thus destroying the fragile, symbiotic relationship between all three individuals. Veteran French filmmaker Claude Sautet (of the Oscar-winning César et Rosalie) has made a powerful film here expressed in the smallest of gestures, just as one might tune the strings of a violin ever-so-slightly to achieve perfection. Sautet indeed employs such a sonorous motif in this story, in which violins always seem to be playing and suggesting that the principal characters look at life as they do music: something to be tinkered with and manipulated for effect. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A beautiful film about love and life
It took the powers that be years to decide to release this film on Region 1 DVD format. This is a brilliant film about relationships and love and life. The French know how to make a film that stays with you, there ain't no hollywood ending here. So worth the wait.
Rating: - Great film.
Daniel Auteuil stars in this evocative film about a love triangle set amid the world of classical music. Stephane-Auteuil-is a world renowned repairer of violins working in the studio of his longtime business partner, Maxime-Andre Dussollier.
When violinist Camille-Emmanuelle Beart-enters the shop for a repair, an intense relationship is forged between the musician and the shop's owner, Maxime. The withdrawn and cold Stephane shows glimpses of jealousy because, as he explains in a detailed ... Read More
Rating: - Six Stars...
"Stephane" played by Daniel Auteuil and "Maxime" played by Andre Dussollier are partners in a violin trading, making and repair business. Maxime plays the suave, handsome "new business developer" who mixes easily in the social circles. Stephane meanwhile is the quiet, somber, thoughtful, introverted master craftsman.
Maxime falls in love with a young, beautiful, classical violinist named Camille. Stephane happens to be present during a number of Maxime's dates and visits with Camille. ... Read More
Rating: - Un Coeur en Hiver is a beautiful, sensitive film
Un Coeur en Hiver is a film about the deepest human feelings and fears, especially fear of intimacy and fear of rejection. The film is the story of three people. Maxime and Stephane are long time professional associates who operate a small company which constructs and restores violins. Maxime runs the business end of the operation, and Stephane is an expert craftsman who handles the repairs. One day, Maxime informs Stephane that he has met somebody. A woman named Camille, a beautiful and talented violinist. ... Read More
Rating:  - He can set a violin on fire, but not his own heart
Stephane is a master luthier, and can release the inner soul of a violin, by just nudging the bridge, or pushing the soundpost, he can bring magical sound and responsiveness to a violin. In so doing, he captures the heart of a beautiful violinist, herself repressed and detached, except when she plays. Camille, the violinist, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quiet and withdrawn Stephane, who himself prefers to stay in the background, guard his own feelings and defer to his more flamboyant partner Maxime ... Read More
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