Toni DVD
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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 Montalv&225;n Jenny H&233;lia &201;douard 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 43 - 1331Number of discs 1
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