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Title:
Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris [DVD video]
Edition:
Letterboxed.
Publication Date:
2003
1975
Publication Information:
New York : Kino on Video, [2003]
c1975
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Abstract:
A plotless four-person musical revue based on the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel, the show opens on a dark and rainy Parisian night. Three strangers--a cab driver, a soldier, and a meek woman--find themselves in a theater. After watching a puppet show, they venture backstage and then onto a beach, where they sing songs during increasingly surreal events.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Based on the stage play written by Eric Blau, Mortimer Shuman and Jacques Brel.
Features such songs as "Marathon," "Timid Frieda," "Marieke," "Ne Me Quitte Pas," "The Middle Class," "Jackie," "Au Suivant," "Chanson des Vieux Amours" and "Carousel (La Valse a Mille Temps)."
Special features: theatrical trailer; an essay by Michael Feingold; the AFT Cinebill; an interview with Edie Landau; "Ely Landau: in front of the camera," AFT promotional reel from 1974; the American Film Theatre trailer gallery; the American Film Theatre scrapbook.
Performers:
Elly Stone (lady with shopping bag), Mort Shuman (taxi driver), Joe Masiell (Marine), Jacques Brel (himself).
Technical Details:
DVD, enhanced for 16x9 TVs.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English.
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
MPAA rating: PG.
