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Studio: Flicker Alley

DVD Release Date: April 6, 2010


Director: Rene Clair


Description
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Rene Clair"s sparkling comedy of manners is a witty, delicate, inspired satire on propriety and behavior in the bourgeois mind-set. Transposing the action of the perennial stage farce from 1851 to a summer wedding day in 1895 -- the birth of cinema -- Clair recalls detail, costume and design captured by the first movies. The Italian Straw Hat -- Un Chapeau de paille d"Italie -- triumphantly survives its 1927 journey from stage to screen; a dozen eccentric characters, superbly acted, try desperately to keep up appearances in the face of disaster, their attitudes, concerns and gestures exquisitely stylized under Clair"s deft orchestration. The sets and costumes, too are a charming combination of the suffocating and the exact.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 5.69 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 105 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): silent (with two different music scores)

Subtitles: optional English with French or Spanish translated title cards



DISC FEATURES:

# La Tour (Eiffel Tower) (1928) - a short film by Rene Clair (11:26).
# Noce en Gouguette (Fun After the Wedding) (1907) A film by Ferdinand Zecca, typical of the films that inspired Clair (9:05).


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