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Une chambre en ville

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special ed.

Languages

In French, with English subtitles.

Performers

Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Fabienne Guyon, Jean-François Stevenin, Jean-Louis Rolland.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, a young woman wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.

Notes

Title from container.

Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; Jacques Demy, A to Z, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt ; Q&A with Demy from the 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival ; filmmaker Anges Varda's 1995 documentary The World of Jacques Demy ; Varda's 1993 documentary The young girls turn 25 ; restoration demonstration ; trailer.

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