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Time to Play: Films By Jacques Rozier

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Release Date: 20/04/2026

Edition: Box Set with Book (Restored Limited Edition)
Region Code: Blu-ray B
Certificate: TBC
Label: Radiance Films
Director: Jacques Rozier
Number of Discs: 5
Audio Languages: French
Subtitle Languages: English

One of the most original, self-assured, yet undersung voices of the French New Wave, Jacques Rozier crafted across a career spanning five decades a cinema attuned to the beauty and heartbreak of chance encounters, improvised days and spontaneous play. This box set presents the UK Blu-ray premiere of his five feature films and several of his short films across five discs. In Adieu Philippine (1962), two girls and a young man spend an idyllic few days in Corsica, his upcoming military service in Algeria looming on the horizon. Also abandoning Paris for the seaside, three girlfriends enjoy a languorous late summer break in Near Orouët (1971). A promised Robinson Crusoe experience in the Caribbean turns into something much more chaotic in The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976). Maine-Ocean Express (1986) follows strangers on a wild adventure across the language barrier. In the backstage comedy Fifi Martingale (2001), a superstitious theatre makes catastrophic changes to a successful play.

Special Features: Bonus Footage, Documentaries: 'Jacques Rozier: From One Wave to Another', Interviews: Robert Beeson (arthouse distributor); Yveline Céry (actor); Jean-François Stévenin (assistant director); Bernard Ménez (actor); Jacques Villeret (actor), Reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; Short films: 'Blue Jeans' (1958, 24 mins); 'Paparazzi' (1963, 22 mins); 'Le parti des choses' (1963, 11 mins), Trailers