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Title:
The baker's wife [DVD video]
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Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (134 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781681436111
Abstract:
An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker whose wife has run off wirth a shepherd. Because the baker is upset and cannot bring himself to work, the scandal snowballs and engulfs the entire town.
General Note:
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1938.
Based upon a novel by Jean Giono.
Full screen (aspect ratio 1.37:1).
Restored version done by La Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Films-MPC in 2016.
Special features: Selected-scene audio commentary featuring film scholar Brett Bowles; introduction by Pagnol from 1967; excerpt from a 1966 television interview with Pagnol, from the program Cinéastes de notre temps; short profile on the film from a local French news program from 1967; in booklet, essay by Ginette Vincendeau.
Performers:
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, [Fernand] Charpin, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette, Robert Bassac, Maupi, Charles Moulin, Edouard Delmont.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital monaural.
Language:
French
Additional Language:
French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
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Audience:
Rating: Not rated.
