La piscine /
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | French dialogue; English subtitles. |
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[New York] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2021]
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| Series: | Criterion collection.
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| Summary: | Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. |
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| Item Description: | Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features: The swimming pool: "First love never dies", the English-language version of the film; Fifty years later, a 2019 documentary by Agnès Vincent-Deray, featuring actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrère and novelist Jean-Emmanuel Conil; new interview with scholar Nick Rees-Roberts on the film's cinematic and aesthetic legacy; archival footage featuring Delon, Birkin, actors, Romy Schneider and Maurice Ronet, and director Jacques Deray; alternate ending; trailers. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Format: | Blu-ray, wide screen (1.66:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player. |
| ISBN: | 9781681438634 1681438631 |