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Married life
Title
Married life / [written and directed by Agnès Varda ; produced by Ciné-Tamaris].
ISBN
9781681437361
1681437368
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 194 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from disc label.
Issued in a boxed set entitled: The complete films of Agnès Varda.
Digitally restored.
Wide screen and full screen.
Bonus features: Introductions to Les créatures and Elsa la rose ; The two women of "Le bonheur" ; What is happiness? the people of Fontenay respond ; Bonheur: proper noun or concept ; Jean-Claude Drouot returns ; interview with Varda on Le bonheur ; Thoughts on "Le bonheur" ; segment from the 1964 television program Démons et merveilles du cinéma ; trailer for Le bonheur ; Varda on set.
Le bonheur: photography, Claude Beausoleil, Jean-Louis Malige, Yves Agostini, Jean Rabier, Claude Zidi, Paul Bonis ; production design, Hubert Monloup, Charles Merangel, Joseph Gerhard ; editing, Janine Verneau, Danielle Grimberg, Maria Lourdes Osorio ; music, W.A. Mozart, Jean-Michel Defaye.
Les créatures: cinematography, Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky, Jean Orjollet ; editors, Jeanine Verneau, Maria de Lourdes-Osorio ; music, Pierre Barbaud, Henry Purcell.
Elsa la rose: cinematography, Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky.
French dialogue.
Summary
Le bonheur: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Les créatures: A novelist takes his pregnant wife to the French seaside to recover from the trauma of an auto accident which has scarred him and left her mute. He spends his time finishing a novel, using the townspeople as models for the story's characters.
Elsa la rose: Tells the story of the lifelong love of Parisian writers Louis Aragaon and Elsa Triolet.
Variant and related titles
Le bonheur
Les créatures
Elsa la rose
Bonheur (Motion picture)
Créatures (Motion picture)
Elsa la rose.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2021
Series
The complete films of Agnès Varda ; program 5
Credits
Le bonheur: photography, Claude Beausoleil, Jean-Louis Malige, Yves Agostini, Jean Rabier, Claude Zidi, Paul Bonis ; production design, Hubert Monloup, Charles Merangel, Joseph Gerhard ; editing, Janine Verneau, Danielle Grimberg, Maria Lourdes Osorio ; music, W.A. Mozart, Jean-Michel Defaye.
Les créatures: cinematography, Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky, Jean Orjollet ; editors, Jeanine Verneau, Maria de Lourdes-Osorio ; music, Pierre Barbaud, Henry Purcell.
Elsa la rose: cinematography, Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky.
Performers
Elsa la rose: featuring the words of Louis Aragon.
Cast
Le bonheur: Jean-Claude Drouot, Clair Drouot, Sandrine Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marcelle Favre-Bertin, Manon Lanclos, Sylvia Saurel, Marc Eyraud, Christian Riehl, Paul Vecchiali.
Les créatures: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Lucien Bodard, Eva Dahlbeck, Marie-France Mignal, Jacques Charrier.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A, B, C; wide screen and full screen presentation; mono. ; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents
Le bonheur = Happiness / Ciné-Tamaris ; Mag Bodard présente ; écrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda ; un film d'Agnès Varda ; produit par Parc Film, Mag Bodard (1965 : 80 min. ; 1.66:1 ; color ; LPCM 2.0)
Les créatures / Mag Bodard présente ; écrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda ; coproduction franco-suédoise Parc film, Mag Bodard, Madeleine films, Sandrew (1966 : 94 min. ; 2.35:1 ; black and white with color sequences ; LPCM 1.0)
Elsa la rose (1966 ; 20 min. ; 1.37:1 ; black and white ; Dolby digital 1.0).
Videorecording number
CC3164BD-5 Criterion Collection
CC3164BD Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Ciné Tamaris (Firm), production company.
Parc Film (Firm), production company.
Madeleine Films, production company.
Sandrews (Firm : Stockholm, Sweden), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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