Cold Water
An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas, the long-unavailable, deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water can at last be seen in the United States. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. The visceral realism of the movie’s narrative and the near experimentalism of its camera work come together effortlessly thanks in part to a rock soundtrack that vividly evokes the period. Cold Water, whose centerpiece is one of the most memorable party sequences ever committed to film, is a heartbreaking immersion in the emotional tumult of being young.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Olivier Assayas, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Assayas
- New interview with cinematographer Denis Lenoir
- Excerpt from a 1994 French television program on the film featuring Assayas and actors Virginie Ledoyen and Cyprien Fouquet
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
New cover by Eric Skillman
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Olivier Assayas, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Assayas
- New interview with cinematographer Denis Lenoir
- Excerpt from a 1994 French television program on the film featuring Assayas and actors Virginie Ledoyen and Cyprien Fouquet
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Virginie Ledoyen
- Christine
- Cyprien Fouquet
- Gilles
- László Szabó
- Gilles’s father
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin
- Inspector
- Dominique Faysse
- Christine’s mother
- Smaïl Mekki
- Mourad
- Jackie Berroyer
- Christine’s father
- Jean-Christophe Bouvet
- Professor
- Ilona Györi
- Marie
- Renée Amzallag
- Nurse
Credits
- Director
- Olivier Assayas
- Written by
- Olivier Assayas
- Producer
- Georges Benayoun
- Producer
- Paul Rozenberg
- Associate producer
- Chantal Poupaud
- Executive producer IMA
- Elisabeth Deviosse
- Executive producer IMA
- Françoise Guglielmi
- Executive producer SFP
- Yannick Casanova
- Production manager
- Sylvie Barthet
- Cinematography by
- Denis Lenoir
- Production designer
- Gilbert Gagneux
- Editor
- Luc Barnier
- Sound
- Hervé Chauvel
- Costume designer
- Françoise Clavel
Trailer for Cold Water
