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Title:
The baker's wife [blu-ray] = La femme du boulanger
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 17 cm)
ISBN:
9781681436104
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, Blue Boy, 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.
Performers:
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, [Fernand] Charpin, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette, Robert Bassac, Maupi, Charles Moulin, Edouard Delmont.
Technical Details:
Blu-ray; region A; 4:3 presentation; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Language:
French
Additional Language:
French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
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Audience:
Rating: Not rated. No CHV rating available.
