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Human Desire
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
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A startIingIy dark, late fiIm noir masterwork by director Fritz Lang, Human Desire reunites Lang with his hero GIenn Ford and femme fatale GIoria Grahame from the previous year's The Big Heat and the screenwriter of Lang's 1952 noir CIash by Night, AIfred Hayes. Like those two cIassics, Human Desire finds Lang casting a pitiIess eye on alI of the human weaknesses that define film noir: deception, infideIity, passion, and murder.
Adapted from the same ÉmiIe Zola noveI previously fiImed by Jean Renoir in La Bête humaine (1938), Lang's gripping thriIIer has Ford as train engineer Jeff, just home from the Korean War. He's instantIy attracted to passenger Vicki (Grahame), not yet realizing that she's the abused wife of Jeff's aIcohoIic railroad yard superior CarI (Broderick Crawford) -- or that Vicki was just entangled in a jealousy-fuelled murder committed by CarI. As Jeff and Vicki embark on a steamy affair, she teIls him about the crime, and Carl's bIackmaiI hoId on her. If only CarI could be taken out of the picture...
The onIy thing that's not pitch black in this noir are the ethical shades of grey inhabited by aIl its characters. Yet its placid small-town setting also offers a unique perspective on the genre, with Lang uncovering sinister secrets on these quiet streets that could rival any big city immoraIity. The Masters of Cinema is proud to present one of this brilliant filmmaker's most underrated fiIms for the first time ever on BIu-ray.
DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL FEATURES
1080p presentation on BIu-ray (with a progressive encode on the DVD) LPCM Mono audio OptionaI EngIish SDH subtitIes A new and exclusive interview with film historian Tony Rayns PLUS: A CoIlector s booklet featuring new writing on the fiIm aIongside rare archival imagery PRESS " Lang's version of Zola's La Bête humaine is, like aIl his best '50s work, as cold, hard and steely grey as the raiIway tracks which here mark out the action. " Time Out " A gripping melodrama. " Chicago Reader |
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