Description |
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 290 |
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Criterion collection ; 290
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Contents |
Special feature: Widescreen version -- New, restored high-definition digital transfer -- Video introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere from 2000 -- Original theatrical trailer -- New and improved English subtitle translation -- 32-page booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Indiana and a reprinted interview with Bunuel -- Language: French mono -- Subtitles: English |
Summary |
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements |
Analysis |
Surréalisme Drame |
Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974 |
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Special features: video introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by culture critic Gary Indiana |
Credits |
Director of photography, Edmond Richard ; screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière |
Cast |
Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Michel Piccoli, Paul Frankeur |
Notes |
DVD video; region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital mono |
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In French with optional English subtitles |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Surrealism -- Drama.
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Hypocrisy -- Drama.
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Feature films -- France.
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Foreign films -- France.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films
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Fiction films.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures
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French language films.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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Author |
Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983.
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Silberman, Serge.
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Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-
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Brialy, Jean-Claude.
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Vitti, Monica.
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Piccoli, Michel, 1925-
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Frankeur, Paul.
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Janus Films.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Studio Canal.
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ISBN |
0780030095 |
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9780780030091 |
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