Le Silence de la Mer (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2015
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Howard Vernon & Nicole Stéphane | |
| Directed by | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| Screenwriting by | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| Cinematography by | Henri Decaë |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Requisite viewing for any student of post-war French cinema.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
The Occupation and its effects on people's emotional lives are recurrent themes in Melville's work, which has inspired the likes of Bresson, Astruc, Resnais and Rohmer.
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Film4
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Although the movie's narrative and acting style are typical of older films, "Le Silence de la Mer" has a modern sensibility and feel, embracing subtlety and ambiguity in a way that was idiosyncratic at the time.
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Lawrence.com
Melville called it an "anti-cinematic" film, and he creates the expressiveness in what remains unspoken, the glances and gestures that take on grand drama in the minimalist presentation.
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Parallax View
if the niece's silence gives intimate expression to a whole nation's resistance, Werner too, far from being demonised as a villain, himself becomes a dramatic embodiment of the tensions within occupied France.
Little White Lies
Jean-Pierre Melville's great, too little-remembered debut, and a classic example of circumstance leading to aesthetic advance.
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CinePassion
Filmed in the most daring way imaginable, using a new cinematic language of transient expressions and glances, the film was a root influence on Bresson and the whole French New Wave.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Forced to house a Nazi officer during the occupation, an elderly French man and his young niece determine never to speak to their uninvited guest. The soldier nonetheless shares his personal views on a wide array of subjects, and the pair begins to warm up to him.
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- UPC: 715515145015
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