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UK import. Blu-ray discs are region B and will only play on region B or region-free Blu-ray players.
 
Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier LE Blu-ray Set collects the complete feature film work of one of the most distinctive yet under-recognized voices of the French New Wave. Across five decades, director Jacques Rozier created a cinema built around chance encounters, improvised journeys and the emotional rhythms of everyday life.
 
This limited edition five-disc Blu-ray box set presents Rozier’s five feature films alongside several of his early short works, newly restored and accompanied by extensive archival and newly produced extras.
 
In Adieu Philippine (1962), two young women and a drifting young man escape to Corsica for a fleeting summer before his looming military service in Algeria. Near Orouët (1971) follows three friends leaving Paris for a slow, sun-drenched seaside holiday. The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976) transforms a Robinson Crusoe-style Caribbean adventure into chaotic absurdity. Maine-Ocean Express (1986) throws together strangers on a wildly comic journey across languages and cultures. Rozier’s final feature Fifi Martingale (2001) is a backstage theatre farce about superstition, ego and creative disaster.
 
Together these films showcase Rozier’s playful storytelling, humanistic observation and singular place within the history of French cinema.
 
directed by: Jacques Rozier
starring: Yveline Céry, Bernard Ménez, Jacques Villeret, Jean-François Stévenin and others
1962–2001 / France / French / Mono PCM audio

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier LE [Region B Blu-ray Set] - Pre-Order 4/20

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Expected to ship on or around the release date: April 20, 2026. Import pre-orders may ship after street date due to international distribution timelines.

  • BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

    • 4K restorations of Near Orouët and Maine-Ocean Express
    • 2K restorations of Adieu Philippine, The Castaways of Turtle Island, and Fifi Martingale
    • 2K restorations of short films Blue Jeans (1958), Paparazzi (1963), and Le parti des choses (1963)
    • Uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film
    • New interview with arthouse distributor Robert Beeson about the French New Wave in the UK (2026)
    • Archival trailer for Adieu Philippine
    • Interview with Adieu Philippine star Yveline Céry
    • Interview with assistant director Jean-François Stévenin
    • Interview with actor Bernard Ménez
    • Interview with The Castaways of Turtle Island star Jacques Villeret
    • Jacques Rozier: From One Wave to Another – feature-length documentary by Emmanuel Barnault
    • Newly improved English subtitle translations for all films
    • Reversible sleeves with newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow

     

    Limited Edition packaging:

    • Rigid collector’s box with full-height Scanavo cases
    • Removable OBI strip
    • Limited edition 80-page book featuring new writing by Caitlin Quinlan plus interviews and archival material
    • Limited to 3000 copies

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