Series no. on spine of case. "Special edition double-disc set"--Container. "Cat. no. RUL020"--Case. French with optional English subtitles. Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Mila Parély, Jean Renoir, Roland Toutain, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot. Originally released in 1939; restored by Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand and re-released in 1959 by Les Grands Films Classiques. Full feature format (CAV), digital sound. Special features: Audio essay/by Alexander Sesonske; spoken by P. Bogdanovich -- Jean Renoir le patron (1967), excerpt.
Summary:
Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos. A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic charade that builds to a shattering climax.
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