Author: Orane Demazis

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• Shrink-wrapped

Format: Collector's Edition

PartNumber: unknown

Release Date: 2017-06-20

Details: In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The Marseilles Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. If Pagnol is not the greatest author of the sound film, critic André Bazin wrote, he is in any case something akin to his genius. brbrTHREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESbr-New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks br-New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernierbr-New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, writer-director Marcel Pagnol s grandsonbr-Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Pieces of chosen, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol s life and workbr-Short documentary on the Marseille harbor by Pagnolbr-Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier br-Pagnol s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles br-French television clip about the restoration of the trilogybr-Theatrical rerelease trailerbr-New English subtitle translationsbr-PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol s memoirs

UPC: 715515199018

EAN: 0715515199018

Model: unknown

Languages: English

Binding: Blu-ray

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood