Synopsis

The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France's best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry's witty dialogue and fleet pacing, the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry's own post - World War II tangle with the law-a wrongful charge of collaborationism-La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on others' misfortunes. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon; New English subtitle translation; More!; PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for Guitry by Francois Truffaut

Additional Information

Additional Information

Format	Blu-ray
Release Date	Aug 22, 2017
Genre	Comedy, Crime
Actors	Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon
Director	Sacha Guitry
Screen Format	Widescreen
Sound	Uncompressed Monaural PCM
Language	French
Sub Titles	English
Video Aspect	1.37:1

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