War of the Buttons DVD Silent Cinema Rio Grande manages to be

Rio Grande manages to be both a conclusion and a new beginning for this most iconic of actor-filmmaker collaborators

Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a married couple in crisis who we follow grappling with big questions as day turns to night

arrives at a feudal lord's palace requesting entry to perform ritual suicide

A dark study of human nature from a master filmmaker

Includes commentary

War of the Buttons DVD Silent Cinema Rio Grande manages to be'War of the Buttons' Director: John Roberts (1994) Warm hearted childhood adventure. Kids from two neighbouring villages are at war, removing buttons from their opponents clothes as trophies, they must keep developing new strategies to outfox each other.