{"product_id":"poison-la-dvd","title":"Poison, La (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France’s best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa poison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e marked his first major collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry’s witty dialogue and fleet pacing, this 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—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa poison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on the misfortunes of others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-feature-title-field=\"\" class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eSPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-special-features-field=\"\" class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on writer-director Sacha Guitry’s influence on French cinema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSixty-minute episode of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCinéastes de notre temps\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom 1965 featuring interviews with some of Guitry’s collaborators\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOn Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea sixty-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and actor Michel Simon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a tribute to Guitry by filmmaker François Truffaut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew cover by Drew Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42563815801032,"sku":"CC2796DDVD","price":37.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/poisonladvd.jpg?v=1676932804","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/poison-la-dvd","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}