L'Amérique insolite : vue par François Reichenbach / un film restauré et numérisé par Les Films de la Pléiade ; une production Les Films de la Pléiade ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; un film de François Reichenbach ; produit par Pierre Braunberger ; [scénario, Chris Marker, François Reichenbach].
Edition:
Special edition.
Publisher:
Arrow Academy,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; 15 cm)
Commentary, Jean Cocteau, Paul Klinger, June Richmond. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Wide screen (1.85:1). Booklet (23 pages; color illustrations) with an essay by Caspar Salmon inserted in container. Special features include: "F for French", new video appreciation of the film by author and critic Philip Kemp; image gallery.
Summary:
Travelogue of the United States through the eyes of French director, François Reichenbach: "I wanted to take the American citizen from his birth until his death and follow him in all funny circumstances, burlesque, unusual in life. I wanted to show his extraordinary youth, his passions, his taste for violence, his dramas, his kindness, and his quirks. To be a curious, tireless, sometimes even indiscreet witness -- this was my goal. But I never allowed myself to judge." "At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months travelling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America As Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed - perhaps even naïve - journey through a multitude of different Americas, filtered through a French sensibility and serving as a fascinating exploration of a culture that is both immediately familiar and thoroughly alien"--blu-ray.com
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