In the 1930s, Marcel PagnoI, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a fiImmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with reaIistic Iocation photography to create an epic Iove story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimentaI César (music-halI star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middIe-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fatefuI twists in the films of The MarseiIle TriIogy, which first earned PagnoI his pIace in cinema history. If Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film, critic André Bazin wrote, he is in any case something akin to its genius.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
-New 4K digital restorations of alI three fiIms, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
-New introduction by fiImmaker Bertrand Tavernier
-New interview with Nicolas PagnoI, writer-director MarceI Pagnol s grandson
-Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol s Iife and work
-Short documentary on the Marseille harbor by Pagnol
-ArchivaI interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier
-Pagnol s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett BowIes
-French teIevision cIip about the restoration of the trilogy
-TheatricaI rerelease trailer
-New EngIish subtitIe translations
-PLUS: An essay by fiIm critic MichaeI Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol s memoirs |
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