#883: ALLÉGRET, Marc: Fanny (1932)
ALLÉGRET, Marc (France)
Fanny [1932]
Spine #883
Blu-ray
Screenplay by Marcel Pagnol, from his stage play.
The Booklet
Sixty-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s introductions to his plays and screenplays.
Commentary
None.
Segments
From Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux chosis, a 1973 documentary series on the writer and filmmaker’s life and work.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Fanny [1932]
Spine #883
Blu-ray
The delicate romanticism of The Marseille Trilogy's opening encounters harsh reality in this installment, which picks up moments after Marius has left his would-be wife, Fanny, for a sailor's existence. Soon after his departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse. By turns moving and disarmingly funny, this portrait of heartbreak and its aftermath is buoyed by Pagnol's openheartedness toward his characters, and by director Marc Allégret's vivid and assured depiction of colorful Marseille.
127 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
in French
1:19:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
in French
1:19:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers
Allégret and André Gide
Screenplay by Marcel Pagnol, from his stage play.
Marc Allégret was 32 when he directed Fanny.
The Film
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Sixty-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s introductions to his plays and screenplays.
Commentary
None.
Segments
From Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux chosis, a 1973 documentary series on the writer and filmmaker’s life and work.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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