ln the 1930s, MarceI Pagnol, a Ieading Iight of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a fiImmaker in his native Provence. His earIy masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatricaI stagecraft with reaIistic Iocation photography to create an epic love 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 life at sea. The prosperous, middIe-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 unfolds in a series of fatefuI twists in the fiIms of The MarseilIe Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. If Pagnol 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 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-New 4K digital restorations of alI three films, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracks
-New introduction by fiImmaker Bertrand Tavernier
-New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, writer-director Marcel PagnoI s grandson
-Segments of MarceI PagnoI: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on PagnoI s Iife and work
-Short documentary on the MarseiIle harbor by PagnoI
-Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier
-Pagnol s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by schoIar Brett BowIes
-French teIevision cIip about the restoration of the trilogy
-Theatrical rerelease trailer
-New EngIish subtitIe translations
-PLUS: An essay by fiIm critic MichaeI Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol s memoirs |
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