La Poison - by Sacha Guitry (Bluray - 08/22/17) [Criterion Collection]

The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France s best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry s witty dialogue and fleet pacing, the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he ll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry s own post World War II tangle with the law a wrongful charge of collaborationism La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on others misfortunes.

Condition: NEW

Actors: Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon
Directors: Sacha Guitry
Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: August 22, 2017
Run Time: 87 minutes

Cast & Crew

Michel Simon Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
Jean Debucourt Aubanel
Pauline Carton The Mercer's Wife
Louis de Funès Actor
Jeanne Fusier-Gir Actor
Jacques Varennes Actor
Jacques DeFeraudy Actor
Jean Duvaleix Actor
Germaine Reuver Actor

Technical Credits

Sacha Guitry Director,Screenwriter
Jean Bachelet Cinematographer
Raymond Lamy Editor
Louiguy Score Composer,Songwriter
Alain Poiré Producerr