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.
Summary:
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.
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