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Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with histori...

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Corporate Author: Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-, Yanne, Jean, Darc, Mireille, 1938-
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:French
Language Notes:French dialogue; English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2012.
Series:Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 635.
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Summary:Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; new video essay by film critic Kent Jones; archival interviews with actors; excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard; trailers; booklet.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Format:Blu-ray Disc, widescreen (1.66:1, 16x9) presentation; PCM mono.; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:Rating: Not rated.