Toni / Gaumont présente ; les films Marcel Pagnol présentent ; film de Jean Renoir ; production, Les films d'aujourd hui ; directeur de la production, Pierre Gaut.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Celia Montalvan, Jenny Helia, Charles Blavette, [Max] Dalban, [Edouard] Delmont, Andrex. Title from title frame. Originally released as a motion picture in 1935. Idea for film story by Jacques Levert. Full screen (1.37:1). Digitally restored in 2019. Special features: audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Philip Lopate; introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961; Episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1967 on Renoir, directed by Jacques Rivette and featuring a conversation with actor Charles Blavette about the film; new video essay about the making of Toni by film scholar Christopher Faulkner.
Summary:
Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.
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