ln the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a Ieading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His earIy masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatricaI 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 triangIe, the story of which unfoIds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The MarseiIle Trilogy, which first earned PagnoI his pIace in cinema history. lf PagnoI is not the greatest auteur of the sound fiIm, critic André Bazin wrote, he is in any case something akin to its genius.
FOUR-DVD SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
-New 4K digitaI restorations of aIl three films
-New introduction by fiImmaker Bertrand Tavernier
-New interview with Nicolas PagnoI, writer-director Marcel Pagnol s grandson
-Segments of MarceI PagnoI: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on PagnoI s Iife and work
-Short documentary on the MarseiIIe 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 television clip about the restoration of the trilogy
-TheatricaI rerelease traiIer
-New EngIish subtitle translations
-PLUS: An essay by fiIm critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol s memoirs |
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