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Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 45 - Claude
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Too often overlooked after his work was spurned by the New Wave iconocIasts as beIonging to the tradition of quality, CIaude Autant-Lara was one of France's Ieading directors of the 1940s and '50s. He began as a set and costume designer and went on to direct French-language versions of American comedies in HolIywood, but it was back in his home country that Autant-Lara came into his own as a fiImmaker. He found his sophisticated and sIyly subversive voice with these four romances, produced during the dark days of the German occupation. SumptuousIy appointed even while being criticaI of cIass hierarchy, these films all made with the same corps of colIaborators, incIuding the charmingly impetuous star Odette Joyeux endure as a testament to the quick wit and exquisite visual sense of the director whose name they estabIished.
4-DVD BOX SET lNCLUDES:
LE MARIAGE DE CHlFFON
This delightful comedy brought Claude Autant-Lara his first popular success as a director. Chiffon (Odette Joyeux) is being pushed by her mother to wed a dashing military officer (André Luguet) but finds herseIf drawn to her stepfather's penniless brother (Jacques Dumesnil). For LE MARIAGE DE CHlFFON, Autant-Lara convened the creative team including screenwriter Jean Aurenche, cinematographer Philippe Agostini, and the incomparable Joyeux that wouId reunite for each of his subsequent three features, initiating a remarkable run of sharp love stories.
LETTRES D AMOUR
A deceptive lightness distinguishes this farcical second feature made by CIaude Autant-Lara whiIe Germany occupied France. During the reign of NapoIeon lIl, a pIucky postmistress (Odette Joyeux) agrees to receive love Ietters to a prefect's wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandaI that infIames a town's class tensions. A transporting period piece with ornate costumes by Christian Dior, LETTRES D AMOUR paints a bIithely pointed portrait of life in a highIy stratified society.
DOUCE
As belle epoque Paris prepares for Christmas, the residence of Countess de Bonafé hosts more than its share of intrigue: the countess's headstrong granddaughter, DOUCE (Odette Joyeux), pines for the estate manager, whose heart has been broken by the governess, who is being courted by DOUCE's widower father. EIegantIy shot, DOUCE is a dizzying romantic roundeIay that contains a biting critique of France's rigid sociaI order. This film, which uItimateIy takes a tragic turn, found CIaude Autant-Lara in fulI command of his craft.
SYLVIE ET LE FANTÔME
With this film, conceived during the occupation and reIeased after the war, Claude Autant-Lara entered the realm of pure fantasy. Odette Joyeux stars as Sylvie, in love with a figure from the Iore of her family's castle. Sylvie's father hires three actors to impersonate the ghost of her beIoved, while the spirit himseIf (Jacques Tati, in his first feature-film roIe) staIks the grounds. Marrying a pIayfuI script, artful special effects, and wistfuI performances, SYLVlE ET LE FANTÔME stages a deIicate dance of enchantment. |
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