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America as Seen by a Frenchman = L'Amérique insolite : vue par François Reichenbach
Title
America as Seen by a Frenchman = L'Amérique insolite : vue par François Reichenbach / un film restauré et numérisé par Les Films de la Pléiade ; une production Les Films de la Pléiade ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; un film de François Reichenbach ; produit par Pierre Braunberger ; [scénario, Chris Marker, François Reichenbach].
Edition
Special edition.
Publication
[United States] : Arrow Academy, Arrow Video, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; 15 cm)
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Booklet (23 pages ; color illustrations) with an essay by Caspar Salmon inserted in container.
Special features include: "F for French", new video appreciation of the film by author and critic Philip Kemp ; image gallery.
Cinematographers, Marcel Grignon, François Reichenbach, Jean-Marc Ripert, Jerome Sutter ; edited by Alpert Jurgenson [and 2 others] ; music, Michel Legrand.
In French; with English subtitles.
Summary
Travelogue of the United States through the eyes of French director, François Reichenbach: "I wanted to take the American citizen from his birth until his death and follow him in all funny circumstances, burlesque, unusual in life. I wanted to show his extraordinary youth, his passions, his taste for violence, his dramas, his kindness, and his quirks. To be a curious, tireless, sometimes even indiscreet witness -- this was my goal. But I never allowed myself to judge."
"At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months travelling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America As Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed - perhaps even naïve - journey through a multitude of different Americas, filtered through a French sensibility and serving as a fascinating exploration of a culture that is both immediately familiar and thoroughly alien"--blu-ray.com
Variant and related titles
L'Amérique insolite : vue par François Reichenbach
Disc surface title: America as seen by a Frenchman
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2021
Credits
Cinematographers, Marcel Grignon, François Reichenbach, Jean-Marc Ripert, Jerome Sutter ; edited by Alpert Jurgenson [and 2 others] ; music, Michel Legrand.
Performers
Commentary, Jean Cocteau, Paul Klinger, June Richmond.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; 1080p high definition, wide screen (aspect ratio: 1.85:1); LPCM Mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
AA060 Arrow Video
FCD2012 Arrow Academy
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Gaumont (Firm), presenter.
Films de la Pléiade (Firm), production company.
Arrow Video (Firm), publisher.
Arrow Academy (Firm), publisher.
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