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Toni

Renoir, Jean

Criterion Collection, 2020

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

Supplemental materials include: audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate; introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961; video essay about the making of Toni by film scholar Christopher Faulkner;an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1956 piece by Renoir about the film.

Titles

+ Toni

Alternate Title:

Les Amours de Toni

Director:

Renoir, Jean

Production Co:

Les Films d'Aujourd'hui

Running Time:

Feature.   84 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1935

Language:

French language with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Romance

Notes:

4K digital restoration. In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, Toni follows the eponymous Italian migrant (Charles Blavette), whose tempestuous affairs with two women—the faithful Marie (Jenny Hélia) and the flirtatious Josefa (Celia Montalván)—unleash a wave of tragedy. Making use of nonprofessional actors, on-location shooting, and the resources of the great Marcel Pagnol’s Provence studio, Renoir crafted a marvel of poetic feeling that anticipated Italian neorealism and became a favorite of the directors of the French New Wave.

Link to:

FII catalog | AFI catalog

+ Cinéastes De Notre Temps

Director:

Rivette, Jacques

Production Co:

Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF)

Running Time:

Feature.   98 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1967

Language:

French language with English subtitles

Genre:

Television Production, Documentary

Notes:

The following is an episode of Cinéastes de notre temps, aired on JAnuary 18, 1967. THe episode is devoted to Jean Renoir and looks at the beginning of Renoir’s career. It also features the director in conversation with TONI actor Charles Blavette.