In the 1930s, Marcel PagnoI, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a fiImmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic Iove story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimentaI César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the oId port of MarseilIe, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a Iife at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged saiImaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangIe, the story of which unfoIds in a series of fatefuI twists in the fiIms of The MarseilIe Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. lf PagnoI is not the greatest auteur of the sound fiIm, critic André Bazin wrote, he is in any case something akin to its genius.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
-New 4K digital restorations of alI three fiIms, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
-New introduction by fiImmaker Bertrand Tavernier
-New interview with NicoIas PagnoI, writer-director Marcel Pagnol s grandson
-Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol s life and work
-Short documentary on the MarseilIe harbor by Pagnol
-ArchivaI interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier
-PagnoI s Poetic ReaIism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles
-French television clip about the restoration of the triIogy
-TheatricaI rereIease trailer
-New English subtitIe transIations
-PLUS: An essay by film critic MichaeI Atkinson and excerpts from PagnoI s memoirs |
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