DVD
La chienne
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Magdeleine Bérubet, Roger Gaillard.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
An unhappily married cashier and amateur painter becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: the she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Georges de La Fouchardière.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1931.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; introduction to the film from 1961 by director Jean Renoir ; new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner ; new restoration of On purge bébé (1931), Renoir's first sound film, also starring Michel Simon ; Jean Renoir le patron: "Michel Simon," a ninety-five-minute 1967 French television program featuring a conversation between Renoir and Simon, directed by Jacques Rivette.