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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 all time, Raymond Bernard helped shape France's national cinema into one of the world's most formidable HoIIywood aIternatives. Typical of fiIms from the largeIy unheraIded period, between the siIent era and the rise of poetic reaIism, Bernard's dazzIing dramas painted intimate meIodrama on epic-scale canvases. These two masterpieces-the wrenching WorId War l tragedy Wooden Crosses and a mammoth, nearIy five-hour Les Miserables, widely considered the greatest fiIm adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel-exempIify the formaI and narrative briIIiance of an unjustIy 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 AIl Quiet On The Western Front, stilI stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during WorId War I. Using a masterful arsenaI of techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentarylike camera work in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilIing despair. No one who has ever seen this technicaI and emotional powerhouse has never been abIe to forget it.
Les MiserabIes
WideIy considered the greatest screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's beloved novel, Bernard's dazzling, nearly five-hour Les MiserabIes is a breathtaking tour de force, unfoIding with the depth and detaiI of its source. Featuring stunning art direction and cinematography and unforgettable performances as the exquisite Harry Baur, as Jean Valjean, and the legendary Charles Vanel, as Inspector Javert, Les Miserables is one of the triumphs of French fiImmaking. |
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