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Série noire / Maurice Bernart présente ; une production Prospectacle et Gaumont ; adaptation, Georges Perec, Alain Corneau ; dialogues de Georges Perec ; un film de Alain Corneau.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 035 177 disc + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Film Movement classics
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--France--Drama.
- Murder.
- Sales personnel--Drama.
- Sales personnel.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Aunts--Drama.
- Aunts.
- Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977--Film adaptations.
- Thompson, Jim.
- Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977.
- Door-to-door selling.
- France.
- Genre:
- Crime films.
- Film noir.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (14 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
- plastic
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Film Movement, [2020]
- Language Note:
- French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; mono; color.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- widescreen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a seventeen-year-old who lives with her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her aunt to get hold of her fortune.
- Participant:
- Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier, Jeanne Herviale, Andreas Katsulas.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Pierre William Glenn ; editor, Thierry Derocles.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
- Based on the novel: A hell of a woman / Jim Thompson.
- "New 2K Digital restoration"--Container
- Widescreen (1.66:1).
- Accompanying booklet contains essay by film critic Nick Pinkerton.
- Special features: Serie Noire, the darkness of the soul featurette; interview with Alain Corneau and Marie Trintignant.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Container of: Série noire (Motion picture)
- OCLC:
- 1143765727
- Publisher Number:
- 850003924731
- FM24713 Film Movement
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