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La poison
Title
La poison / une production Gaumont et Paul Wagner ; un film de Sacha Guitry ; le dialogue et la mise en scène sont de l'auteur, bien entendu.
ISBN
9781681433455
1681433451
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Notes
Title from title frame.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Features: new high-definition digital restoration; new interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a sixty-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon; new English subtitle translation; plus an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a tribute to Guitry by filmmaker François Truffaut.
Music and songs, Louiguy ; director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editor, Raymond Lamy.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
"The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France's best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first major collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry's witty dialogue and fleet pacing, this black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual prison trial. Inspired by Guitry's own post-World War II tangle with the law--a wrongful charge of collaborationism--La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on the misfortunes of others"--Container.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 891
Credits
Music and songs, Louiguy ; director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editor, Raymond Lamy.
Cast
Michel Simon, Germaine Reuver, Jean Debucourt, Pauline Carton, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jean Duvaleix, Georges Bever.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural.
Videorecording number
CC2795BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Dark comedy films.
Crime films.
Fiction films.
Crime films.
Dark comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Gaumont (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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