UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15063389
Format:
1 DVD-Video (ca. 81 Min. + Bonus)
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Tonformat: DD/2.0 (franz.)
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1 Beih.
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Bildformat: 1.66:1
Series Statement:
The Masters of Cinema Series : [DVD-Video] 75
Content:
The world sometimes seems divided into two camps: those who recall their teenage years as having been an exhilarating dream, and those who remember them as having been an infernal, nightmarish hell. So it might do to describe "Passe ton bac d'abord" [Graduate First / "Pass Your Bac First" as Maurice Pialat's "The Best Years of Our Lives", while bearing in mind all that such a description might suggest: an unsparing portrait of the era when the words ĺsixteen candles' still might have first conjured the image of flames. A group of young actors including several local unknowns - Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczyk, Patrick Lepczynski, and Sabine Haudepin (once the little girl of Truffaut's Jules et Jim), among others - make up the cluster of friends adrift beneath the twilight of their school years. There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs - group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to Paris, and few prospects of passing the bac, the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world to do what? Marking the last work of Pialat's turbulent cycle of films made in the 1970s, Passe ton bac d'abord" is the brilliant spiritual sequel to the great filmmaker's feature-debut L'Enfance-nue - with the action taking place in the same region as the earlier film, ten years on. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Pialat's teenage drama in a beautiful new transfer for the first time on home video in the UK. (Covertext)
Content:
Extras: - New anamorphic transfer of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio - A 2003 video interview with Pialat collaborators Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret, made by Serge Toubiana (former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma and director of the Cinémathèque Française) [11:00] - Après le bac [After the Bac] a 2003 documentary by Serge Toubiana and Sonia Buchman that catches up with the cast and location [26:00] - Original trailer for the film, and trailers for the six other Maurice Pialat features available from The Masters of Cinema Series - 52-page booklet containing a new essay by Craig Keller, three newly translated interviews with Maurice Pialat, and Pialat's responses to a 1981 "cinema survey"
Note:
Ländercode: 2
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Orig.: Frankreich, 1979
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Franz. mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
French
Keywords:
Passe ton bac d'abord
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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Interview
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