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Criterion Collection: The Marseille Trilogy (Marius, Fanny, Cesar) In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius’s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. “If Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film,” critic André Bazin wrote, “he is in any case something akin to its genius.” THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, writer-director Marcel Pagnol’s grandson Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol’s life and work Short documentary on the Marseille harbor by Pagnol Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier Pagnol’s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles French television clip about the restoration of the trilogy Theatrical rerelease trailer New English subtitle translations PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s memoirs" GENRE: DRAMA/COMEDY LANGUAGE: French SUBTITLES: English AUDIO: Uncompressed Monaural PCM Widescreen TIME: 395 Minutes B&WProduct Identifiers
UPC0715515199018
eBay Product ID (ePID)20046035211
Product Key Features
Movie/TV TitleThe Marseille Trilogy (Marius, Fanny, Cesar) (Criterion Collection)
FormatBlu-ray
GenreDrama
StudioCriterion Collection
Sub-GenreForeign-French
Dimensions
Item Height1.13 in
Item Weight0.79 lb
Item Length6.82 in
Item Width5.66 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs3
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- 13. Dez. 2023
Brilliant
All three films in this trilogy are surprisingly fresh and enjoyable, nothwithstanding their considerable age. Marcel Pagnol certainly knew how to write engaging stories, and these three films are a perfect example. The three form a perfect story arc which is very well concluded in the last film, Cesar. They have to be seen in chronological order, since otherwise they would make little sense. The acting is very much better than you would expect of films of that era, and so well directed that they have all the best characteristics of the '30s, with very little of the drawbacks. The individual characters a superbly drawn and interpreted, and give the films so much heft that they completely justify the description "classic". Whilst I am not usually too enthusiastic about the so-called masterpieces of the '20s and '30s, this turned out to be an exception, and so much so that I am surprised that there was a remake of the first two titles. I haven't seen them, and can imagine the modern day production to be technically incomparable, but in this particular case it would be nigh impossible to recreate the authentic "magic" of the real thing as done in the '30s. In addition, the lack of the 3rd title in the remake is a very serious shortcoming. If Marcel Pagnol is your cup of tea, don't hesitate: this is the real McCoy, and brilliantly restored to boot!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Jul. 2018
Wonderful, human drama
Fine films--it is a trilogy--that later provided the basis for the Leslie Caron film "Fanny" in the early sixties. It is long but engaging and deeply human in its drama. Well worth watching, and, as usual, the Criterion Collection guarantees a quality print.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 07. Mär. 2025
Truly wonderful (and very hard to find!)...
Truly wonderful (and very hard to find!) set of DVDs for the Marseille trilogy...have had the VHS tapes but they needed to be replaced... DVDs will be long lasting.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
