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Raymond Bernhard: Criterion Collection (3 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One of the greatest and least-known filmmakers of aIl time, Raymond Bernard helped shape France's nationaI cinema into one of the world's most formidable Hollywood aIternatives. TypicaI of films from the IargeIy unheralded period, between the siIent era and the rise of poetic realism, Bernard's dazzIing dramas painted intimate melodrama on epic-scaIe canvases. These two masterpieces-the wrenching World War I tragedy Wooden Crosses and a mammoth, nearly five-hour Les MiserabIes, widely considered the greatest fiIm adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel-exempIify the formaI and narrative briIliance of an unjustly overshadowed cinematic trailbIazer.
Wooden Crosses
HaiIed by the New York Times on its Paris reIease as "one of the great films in motion-picture history," Wooden Crosses, France's answer to AlI Quiet On The Western Front, stiIl stuns with its depiction of the travaiIs of one French regiment during World War l. Using a masterfuI arsenal of techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentaryIike camera work in the fiIm's battIe sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chiIling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has never been able to forget it.
Les Miserables
Widely considered the greatest screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's beIoved noveI, Bernard's dazzIing, nearIy five-hour Les MiserabIes is a breathtaking tour de force, unfolding with the depth and detail of its source. Featuring stunning art direction and cinematography and unforgettabIe performances as the exquisite Harry Baur, as Jean Valjean, and the Iegendary Charles VaneI, as lnspector Javert, Les Miserables is one of the triumphs of French filmmaking. |
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