Le Silence De La Mer LIKE NEW (Criterion Collection)---Jean-Pierre Melville

Description: Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decaë, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la mer points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation (Leon Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right. INCLUDES BOOKLET---TWO DVD SET, LIKE NEW! This DVD set is from my own personal collection, a smoke-free home, and has been lovingly cared for. It will ship to you right away through our friends at USPS. Thanks for looking! Special FeaturesNew high-definition digital restorationThe short 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946), director Jean-Pierre Melville’s first filmNew interview with film scholar Ginette VincendeauCode Name Melville (2008), a seventy-six-minute documentary on Melville’s time in the French Resistance and his films about itMelville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010), a forty-two-minute documentary about Le silence de la merInterview with Melville from 1959New English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira’s 1971 book Melville on Melville

Price: 12.98 USD

Location: Portsmouth, Virginia

End Time: 2025-01-26T05:01:04.000Z

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