Bonheur (Motion picture) Créatures (Motion picture) Elsa la rose.
Notes:
Title from disc label. 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. Elsa la rose: featuring the words of Louis Aragon. 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.
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).
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.
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