The soft skin La peau douce
DVD - 2015
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Romance films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
the Criterion Collection
[2015]
- Language
- French
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- Edition
- DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- 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-min. 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. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; music, Georges Delerue ; editor, Claudine Bouché.
- ISBN
- 9781604659634
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