La Poison
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Special features: 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 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon. Booklet contains an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for guitry by François Truffaut.
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Michel Simon, Germaine Reuver, Jean Debucourt, Marcelle Arnold, Pauline Carton, Jacques Varennes.
After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
DVD, NTSC ; region 1.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
891.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
French dialogue with English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 2 videodiscs (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781681433462
168143346X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Guitry, Sacha, 1885-1957,
Wagner, Paul (Film producer),
Simon, Michel, 1895-1975,
Reuver, Germaine, 1885-1953,
Debucourt, Jean, 1894-1958,
Varennes, Jacques, 1894-1958,
Société nouvelle des établissements Gaumont,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
SUBJECTS
Murder -- France -- Drama.
Married people -- France -- Drama.
Defense (Criminal procedure) -- France -- Drama.
Feature films -- France.
Foreign language films -- French.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Dark comedy films.
Crime films.