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La peau douce / Janus Films ; MK2 Diffusion ; scénario original de F. Truffaut et Jean-Louis Richard ; mise en scène, François Truffaut ; FIlms du Carrosse-SEDIF-SIMAR.
LIBRA DVD 026 045 disc + insert
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 749.
- Criterion collection ; 749
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Adultery--France--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Intellectuals--France--Drama.
- Intellectuals.
- Flight attendants--Drama.
- Flight attendants.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- France.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Romance films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Distribution:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : the Criterion Collection, [2015]
- Other Title:
- English title from container: Soft skin
- Language Note:
- In French, with optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital optical monaural Dolby Digital 1.0
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
- Participant:
- Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie, Philippe Dumat, Paule Emanuele, Maurice Garrel, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lacarriere, Jean Lanier, Pierre Risch.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; music, Georges Delerue ; editor, Claudine Bouché.
- Notes:
- DVD release of the 1964 motion picture.
- Special features: Commentary (features screenwriter Jean-Louis Richard and François Truffaut, scholar Serge Toubiana); The complexity of influence (video essay by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones details how director Alfred Hitchcock influenced Truffanut's filmmaking); Monsieur Truffaut meets Mr. Hitchcock (made by film historian Robert Fischer in 1999, 30-min. documentary tells the story behind director Truffaut's famous interview book Hitchcock, from Truffaut's presentation of the idea to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcok in 1962 to the book's publication four years later); Truffaut on The soft skin (excerpt from a December 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, Truffaut talks about the origin of the film, shooting its love scenes, and choreographing its finale); new English subtitles translation. Insert includes an essay by critic Molly Haskell.
- ISBN:
- 9781604659634
- 1604659637
- OCLC:
- 900805502
- Publisher Number:
- 715515141215
- CC2455D The Criterion Collection
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