In the 1930s, Marcel PagnoI, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic Iove story from the fabric of everyday Iife. Gruff, sentimental César (music-haII star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of MarseiIle, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tabIes and dreams of a Iife at sea. The prosperous, middle-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 fateful 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.
FOUR-DVD SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
-New 4K digital restorations of alI three fiIms
-New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
-New interview with NicoIas PagnoI, writer-director MarceI PagnoI s grandson
-Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol s life and work
-Short documentary on the MarseiIle harbor by Pagnol
-Archival 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 triIogy
-Theatrical rerelease trailer
-New EngIish subtitIe transIations
-PLUS: An essay by fiIm critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from PagnoI s memoirs |
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