I saw this Jean Luc Godard movie when it first came out. However I have noticed it is only available in Europe. I remember enjoying it very much as I do other Godard films.
Does anyone know why so many movies like this never get sent to the US
Most Brigitte Bardot movies never seem to be available as well. Sophia Loren has only her English language movies available with some rare exceptions.
Re: your question, by chance, as this film will be on my TV net tonight (TV5French channel) This question concerns us here as well, as most similar non-US films hardly get any distribution in countries like Holland as well. Compare this, films starring Isabelle Huppert, like this one, an actress whom I " follow', mostly never get shown outside of France. The last two to be released in the netherlands were, this year: "Gabrielle" (only 3 weeks running) and then "Ivresse de Pouvoir" (Drunkenness of Power), which played a few months....
To answer your question? I guess: "it is all big business, and the movie business is 99% controlled by US companies " etc. As well inside the USA as abroad. Sorry for you!! Greetings from the Netherlands, a movie lover.
Well, pretty much the same is true in Australia. I never heard of Isabelle Huppert until about a year ago. None of her films have ever been shown here, afaik. I have scoured the internet and found many of her films and she is now my favourite actress on the whole planet.
Although it is quite cosmopolitan and multicultural here (Sydney), the cinematographic fare available is still overwhelmingly American. If you want something different, you have to search out the art houses or, as I do, scrape them off the internet. You can watch our multicultural SBS channel, but you will wait a long time if you're waiting for a specific title.
I am now hopelessly addicted to French films of almost any genre, even Gaspar Noe. Hollywood stuff just seems so contrived and formulaic now. But just as with the music, the film industry is very big business, and the moguls aim to totally control everything you see and hear, by whatever means it takes.
When it was originally released in the US (or at least here in New York), it was a co-presentation by Francis Coppola's Zoetrope studios and New Yorker Films.
I am not sure which of them retains the DVD rights, but my guess is either New Yorker has the rights or the rights reverted to the original European producer. I say that because there are dozens and dozens of great European films that New Yorker released in theaters back in the 1970's and 1980's that were never released on DVD. So either New Yorker no longer has the rights or they are just not motivated to put the films out on DVD.