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Toni DVD

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Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound authentic patois lack of make-up a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid m

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Released
17 April 2006
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Eureka Video 
Classification
Runtime
82 minutes 
Features
PAL 
Barcode
5060000400977 
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play. Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company, Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion, it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound, authentic patois, lack of make-up, a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles, and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid melodrama lead to Toni often being labeled "the first 'neorealist' film". Renoir himself disagreed. Although Toni is acknowledged as a masterly forerunner of neo-realist preoccupations and techniques he wrote: "I do not think that is quite correct. The Italian films are magnificent dramatic productions, whereas in Toni I was at pains to avoid the dramatic." Toni's story centres around an Italian immigrant, Antonio Canova (Charles Blavette), a labourer at a local quarry who has become entangled in relationships with his landlady (Jenny Helia) and with the young, hot-blooded Spaniard, Josefa (Celia Montalvan). As Josefa's life disintegrates through rape and a necessitous marriage to the brutish foreman Albert (Max Dalban), Toni is caught up in a series of marriages gone sour and the psychological fragility of those he cares for. Despite the exquisite location backgrounds ? the vineyards, rocky hilltops and verdant pathways surrounding the little village Renoir makes no attempt to impose, through picturesqueness, the placid power of this Provencal backwater. Actors: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia, Édouard Delmont, Max DalbanDirectors: Jean RenoirWriters: Jacques Levert, Jean Renoir, Carl EinsteinProducers: Boyer, Marcel PagnolFormat: PALLanguage: French, Italian, SpanishSubtitles: EnglishRegion: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1Number of discs: 1

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