Actor : Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly Director: René Clair Genre: Comedy Year: 1931 Studio:Home Vision Entertainment Length: 83 Released: August 20, 2002 Rating: Unrated (Video) Format: DVD Misc: NTSC, Black & White Language:French Subtitles : English
DESCRIPTION:
One of the all-time great comedy classics, René Clair's À Nous la Liberté is a skillful satire of the industrial revolution and the blind quest for wealth. Deftly integrating his signature musical-comedy technique with pointed social criticism, Clair tells the story of an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately his past returns to upset his carefully laid plans. Featuring lighthearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, À Nous la Liberté is both a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight.
Special Features:
New digital transfer
Deleted scenes
Entr'acte (1924), the short Surrealist masterpiece by Clair and artist Francis Picabia
Video interview with Madame Bronja Clair
Film historian David Robinson on the Tobis lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
Actor : Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly Director: René Clair Genre: Comedy Year: 1931 Studio:Home Vision Entertainment Length: 83 Released: August 20, 2002 Rating: Unrated (Video) Format: DVD Misc: NTSC, Black & White Language:French Subtitles : English
DESCRIPTION:
One of the all-time great comedy classics, René Clair's À Nous la Liberté is a skillful satire of the industrial revolution and the blind quest for wealth. Deftly integrating his signature musical-comedy technique with pointed social criticism, Clair tells the story of an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately his past returns to upset his carefully laid plans. Featuring lighthearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, À Nous la Liberté is both a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight.
Special Features:
New digital transfer
Deleted scenes
Entr'acte (1924), the short Surrealist masterpiece by Clair and artist Francis Picabia
Video interview with Madame Bronja Clair
Film historian David Robinson on the Tobis lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
