| Edition |
DVD special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert. |
| Physical Medium |
DVD video 4 3/4 in. rda |
| Description |
digital optical monaural Dolby Digital 1.0 |
|
NTSC rda |
|
video file DVD video region 1 |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 749 |
|
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 749.
|
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
| Cast |
Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie, Philippe Dumat, Paule Emanuele, Maurice Garrel, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lacarriere, Jean Lanier, Pierre Risch. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; music, Georges Delerue ; editor, Claudine Bouché. |
| Note |
DVD release of the 1964 motion picture. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion. |
| Note |
Special features: Commentary (features screenwriter Jean-Louis Richard and François Truffaut, scholar Serge Toubiana); The complexity of influence (video essay by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones details how director Alfred Hitchcock influenced Truffanut's filmmaking); Monsieur Truffaut meets Mr. Hitchcock (made by film historian Robert Fischer in 1999, 30-min. documentary tells the story behind director Truffaut's famous interview book Hitchcock, from Truffaut's presentation of the idea to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcok in 1962 to the book's publication four years later); Truffaut on The soft skin (excerpt from a December 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, Truffaut talks about the origin of the film, shooting its love scenes, and choreographing its finale); new English subtitles translation. Insert includes an essay by critic Molly Haskell. |
| Language |
In French, with optional subtitles in English. |
| Subject |
Adultery -- France -- Drama.
|
|
Intellectuals -- France -- Drama.
|
|
Flight attendants -- Drama.
|
|
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
|
|
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
|
| Genre/Form |
Romance films.
|
|
Fiction films.
|
|
Feature films.
|
|
Feature films -- France.
|
|
Foreign language films -- French.
|
|
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
|
| Added Author |
Truffaut, François, screenwriter, film director.
|
|
Richard, Jean-Louis, screenwriter.
|
|
Desailly, Jean, actor.
|
|
Dorléac, Françoise, actor.
|
|
Benedetti, Nelly, actor.
|
|
Ceccaldi, Daniel, 1927-2003 actor.
|
|
Badie, Laurence, actor.
|
|
Dumat, Philippe, 1925-2006, actor.
|
|
Emanuele, Paule, 1927- actor.
|
|
Garrel, Maurice, actor.
|
|
Haudepin, Sabine, 1955- actor.
|
|
Lacarrière, Dominique, actor.
|
|
Lanier, Jean, 1913-1999, actor.
|
|
Risch, Pierre, actor.
|
|
Coutard, Raoul, director of photography.
|
|
Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992, composer (expression)
|
|
Bouché, Claudine, editor of moving image work.
|
|
Toubiana, Serge, commentator.
|
|
Jones, Kent, 1964- filmmaker.
|
|
Fischer, Robert, 1954- filmmaker.
|
|
Haskell, Molly, writer of supplementary textual content.
|
|
Films du carrosse (Firm), production company.
|
|
S.E.D.I.F., production company.
|
|
Simar Films., production company.
|
|
Janus Films, film distributor.
|
|
MK2 Diffusion (Firm), film distributor.
|
|
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
|
| Note |
English title from container: Soft skin |
| ISBN |
9781604659634 |
|
1604659637 |
| Standard No. |
715515141215 |
| Music No. |
CC2455D The Criterion Collection |
|
