| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Gervaise (Essential Art House) September 15th Criterion Retail: $19.99, Our: $14.99 |   |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Le Jour se Lève (Essential Art House) September 15th Criterion Retail: $19.99, Our: $14.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Mayerling (Essential Art House) September 15th Criterion Retail: $19.99, Our: $14.99 | |
Criterion has announced a September 15th release date for three French films as part of their Essential Art House line. They are: Gervaise (1956), Le Jour se Lève (1939) and Mayerling (1936).
All three are single discs release with no bonus features expected. Each will retail for $19.99, but are available at Classicflix.com for only $14.99. Details below.
Mayerling (Essential Art House)
The gorgeous duo of Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux first appeared on-screen together almost twenty years before The Earrings of Madame de... , in this sumptuous tragic romance from Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit, Anastasia). Mayerling is the profoundly emotional true story of the doomed adulterous affair between Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Austrian throne, and the young and innocent baron’s daughter Marie Vetsera.
Le Jour se Lève (Essential Art House)
The culmination of Poetic Realist cinema of the 1930s, Le Jour se Leve was Marcel Carne’s third collaboration with screenwriter and poet Jacques Prevert. A story of obsessive sexuality and murder--in which working class everyman Francois (Jean Gabin) resorts to killing in order to free the woman he loves from the controlling influence of another man—Le jour se lève cemented the enormous reputations of Gabin and Carné.
Gervaise (Essential Art House)
One of France’s most respected directors of the postwar era, Rene Clement directed such searing psychological dramas as Forbidden Games and Purple Noon. And Gervaise, his vivid 1956 adaptation of Emile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, is no exception. An uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business, Gervaise was nominated for an Oscar, and the indomitable Maria Schell earned best actress honors at the Venice Film Festival.
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