Une chambre en ville / Janus Films ; Ciné-Tamaris Films ; Christine Gouze-Renal présente une co-production Progefi - TF1 Films Production - UGC - Top 1 ; scénario et paroles Jacques Demy ; un film écrit et réalisé par Jacques Demy.
In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsen...
| Uniform Title: | Chambre en ville (Motion picture)
Criterion collection ; 713. Criterion collection ; 719. Essential Jacques Demy. |
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| Language: | French English |
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French |
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French dialogue; English subtitles. |
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©2014
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| Series: | Criterion collection ;
713. Criterion collection ; 719. Essential Jacques Demy. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (183 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (66 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm). |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother. |
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| Note: | Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection (Criterion collection 713) Also part of a 3 disc dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition. Originally released as motion picture in 1982. Special features: Disc 1: Jacques Demy, A to Z (visual essay about the director by film scholar James Quandt); Jacques Demy at the Midnight Sun Film Festival (Q&A session from the 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland, moderated by Peter von Bagh); Restoration demonstration; Trailer. Disc 2: The world of Jacques Demy (Agnès Varda directed and narrates this 1995 documentary about the life and career of her late husband, director Jacques Demy, archival interviews with Demy as well as interviews with composer Michel Legrand and actors Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Dominique Sanda, Jeanne Moreau, and Anouk Aimée); The young girls turn 25 (1993 documentary about the making of The young girls of Rochefort, filmmaker Agnès Varda returns to the town of Rochefort for the film's 25th anniversary) Accompanied by a booklet featuring essays by critics Ginette Vincendeau, Terrence Rafferty, Jim Ridley, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anne E. Duggan, and Geoff Andrew, and a postscript by Berthome. |
| Call Number: | PN1995.9.M86 C468 2014 VideoDVD |
| ISBN: | 9781604658651 (Blu-ray/DVD set) 1604658657 (Blu-ray/DVD set) |
| Credits: | Music, Michel Colombier ; director of photography, Jean Penzer ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; costumes, Rosalie Varda ; editor, Sabine Mamou. |
| System Details: | DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 2.0 surround, 1.66:1 aspect ratio. |
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Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Fabienne Guyon, Anna Gaylor, Jean-François Stevenin, Jean-Louis Rolland, Marie-France Roussel, Georges Blaness, Mapie Folliard, Monique Creteur, Gil Warga, Nicolas Hossein, Yann Dedet, Antoine Mikola, Patrick Joly; singers, Danielle Darrieux, Florence Davis, Liliane Davis, Fabienne Guyon, Marie-France Roussel, Jacques Revaux, Jean-Louis Rolland, Georges Blaness, Aldo Franck. |