La peau douce = the soft skin
2015
DVD
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604659634
Edition: DVD special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical monaural Dolby Digital 1.0
- videodisc
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR
Other Title: English title from container: Soft skin
Notes:
- DVD release of the 1964 motion picture.
- Special features: Commentary (features screenwriter Jean-Louis Richard and Truffaut scholar Serge Toubiana); The complexity of influence (video essay by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones details how director Alfred Hitchcock influenced Truffaut's filmmaking); Monsieur Truffaut meets Mr. Hitchcock (made by film historian Robert Fischer in 1999, 30-minutes documentary tells the story behind director Truffaut's famous interview book Hitchcock, from Truffaut's presentation of the idea to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 to the book's publication four years later); Truffaut on The soft skin (excerpt from a December 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, Truffaut talks about the origin of the film, shooting its love scenes, and choreographing its finale); new English subtitles translation. Insert includes an essay by critic Molly Haskell.
- Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; music, Georges Delerue ; editor, Claudine Bouché.
- Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie, Philippe Dumat, Paule Emanuele, Maurice Garrel, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lacarriere, Jean Lanier, Pierre Risch.
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation ; Dolby digital monophonic.
- In French, with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2455D
- 11241870
Control Number: 2774218
UPC: 715515141215
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : the Criterion Collection, [2015]Series:
Subjects:
- Adultery -- France -- Drama.
- Flight attendants -- Drama.
- Intellectuals -- France -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Badie, Laurence, actor.
- Benedetti, Nelly, actor.
- Bouché, Claudine, editor of moving image work.
- Ceccaldi, Daniel, 1927-2003, actor.
- Coutard, Raoul, director of photography.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992, composer (expression)
- Desailly, Jean, actor.
- Dorléac, Françoise, actor.
- Dumat, Philippe, actor.
- Emanuele, Paule, 1927- actor.
- Films du carrosse (Firm), production company.
- Fischer, Robert, 1954- filmmaker.
- Garrel, Maurice, actor.
- Haskell, Molly, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Haudepin, Sabine, 1955- actor.
- Janus Films, film distributor.
- Jones, Kent, 1964- filmmaker.
- Lacarrière, Dominique, actor.
- Lanier, Jean, 1913-1999, actor.
- MK2 Diffusion (Firm), film distributor.
- Richard, Jean-Louis, screenwriter.
- Risch, Pierre, actor.
- S.E.D.I.F., production company.
- Simar Films, production company.
- Toubiana, Serge, commentator.
- Truffaut, François, screenwriter, film director.