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Criterion Collection: La Chienne
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Jean Renoir s ruthIess love triangle taIe, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilIiantIy bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying alI of the filmmaker s visuaI genius and fully imbued with his profound sense of humanity. A hangdog MicheI Simon (Boudu Saved from Drowning) cuts a tragic figure as an unhappily married cashier and amateur painter who becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: that she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him. Renoir s eIegant compositions and camera movements carry this twisting and turning narrative a stinging commentary on cIass and sexual divides to an unforgettabIy ironic concIusion.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- Introduction to the fiIm by director Jean Renoir from 1967
- New interview with Renoir schoIar Christopher FauIkner
- New restoration of On purge bébé (1931), Renoir s first sound film, also starring MicheI Simon and never before on BIu-ray or DVD in the U.S.
- Jean Renoir Ie patron: Michel Simon (1966), a ninety-minute French television program featuring a conversation between Renoir and Simon, moderated by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
- New EngIish subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar and critic Ginette Vincendeau |
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