La Verité [Criterion Collection]

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Overview

The main attraction in this downbeat, routine drama by director Henri-Georges Clouzot is Brigitte Bardot as lead character Dominique, a small-town woman who is undone by big-city life and inner-city morals. Told in a series of flashbacks during a murder trial, the complicated plot begins when Dominique goes to Paris and launches into various affairs with Left Bank intellectual types. After a brief fling with her sister's boyfriend, they quarrel and split. Time goes by and he scores in his career as a conductor while she deteriorates into prostitution. Fate tragically brings them together one more time when Dominique realizes she always loved him, in spite of everything.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/12/2019
UPC:	0715515226110
Original Release:	1960
Rating:	NR
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:08:00
Sales rank:	24,919

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration; Le scandale Clouzot, a sixty-minute documentary from 2017 on Director Henri-Georges Clouzot; Interview from 1960 with Clouzot; Interview with actor Brigitte Bardot from the 1982 documentayr Brigitte Bardot telle qu'elle; New English Subtitle Translation; Plus: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brigitte Bardot	Dominique Marceau
Charles Vanel	Master Gu?rin
Paul Meurisse	Master ?parvier
Marie-Jose Nat	Annie Marceau
Sami Frey	Gilbert Tellier
Louis Seigner	President of the Court
Jacqueline Porel	Defense Lawyer
Andre Oumansky	Ludovic
Christian Lude	Colonel
Suzy Willy	Mme. Marceau
Barbara Somers	Daisy
Rene Blancard	Attorney General
Fernand Ledoux	Court Physician
Louis Arbessier	Conservatory Professor
Jacques Perrin	J?r?me
Claude Berri	Georges
Jacques Hilling	'Sputnik' Client
Colette Castel	Young Lawyer
M. Cavalier	Actor
Igor Stravinsky	Composer

Technical Credits

Jerome Geronimi

V?ra Clouzot

Raoul J. Levy	Producer
Jerome Geronimi	Screenwriter
V?ra Clouzot	Screenwriter,Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Verité
1. "The Court is in Session" [8:50]
2. The Charges Against Dominique [3:40]
3. Suicide Attempt [7:20]
4. Paris Lifestyle [5:52]
5. Cutting Family Ties [5:51]
6. Gilbert Comes Calling [5:52]
7. An Evening Motorbike Ride [7:06]
8. Reconciliation [3:22]
9. Conducting Class [6:16]
10. Gilbert's "Intentions" [8:19]
11. A New Job for Dominique [7:03]
12. Perceived Betrayals [3:59]
13. Touissant's Explanation [7:30]
14. The Engagement [9:17]
15. A Bitter Reunion [8:17]
16. The Landlady's Testimony [1:09]
17. Annie Takes the Stand [4:20]
18. A Looming Tragedy [2:38]
19. Anatomy of Gilbert's Murder [7:25]
20. Ugly Truths [5:00]
21. Dominique's Final Act [4:32]
1. Color Bars [4:23]

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