DVD
The baker's wife = La femme du boulanger
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Raimu, Charpin, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (134 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provençal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker snowball into a scandal that engulfs the entire town. Marrying the director's abiding concern for the experiences of ordinary people with an understated but superbly judged visual style, The Baker's Wife is at once wonderfully droll and piercingly perceptive in its depiction of the complexities of human relationships.
Notes
Based upon a novel by Jean Giono.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1938.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new selected-scene audio commentary featuring Marcel Pagnol scholar Brett Bowles ; introduction by Pagnol from 1967 ; excerpt from a 1966 interview with Pagnol for the French television series Ceneastes de notre temps ; short French news program from 1976 revisiting the village of Le Castellet, where the film was shot ; new English subtitle translation.