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The Story of a Three Day Pass
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.
- Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Independent films.
- Motion pictures.
- Drama.
- Romance.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1967
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Melvin Van Peebles's edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, "La permission," would become the stylistically innovative THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS. Turner, an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman-but what happens to their love when his furlough is over? Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Van Peebles creates an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship as well as a commentary on France's contradictory attitudes about race that is playful, sarcastic, and stingingly subversive by turns, and that laid the foundation for the scorched-earth cinematic revolution he would let loose just a few years later
- Participant:
- Hal Brav, Harry Baird, Nicole Berger
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1967
- Publisher Number:
- 14354674 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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