La poison

Blu-ray 2017

It is the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.

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Married people Drama

Murder France Drama

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Crime films Dark comedy films Drama Feature films Foreign films -- France Video recordings

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Criterion collection The Criterion collection

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ISBN:

9781681433455

Description:

1 Blu-ray disc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical monaural
video file Blu-Ray region A
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Notes:

Title from sell sheet
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951
Wide screen
High-Definition
Special features: New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On life on-screen: miseries and splendour of a monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon; plus: an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obiturary for Guitry by François Truffaut
Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player
French dialogue; English subtitles

Control Number:

2250448

UPC:

715515202312

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Guitry, Sacha, 1885-1957, screenwriter, film director
Reuver, Germaine, 1885-1953, actor
Simon, Michel, 1895-1975, actor

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