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Toni [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Jean Renoir.

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Criterion Collection, 2020.

Immigrants -- France -- Drama.

Italians -- France -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1040.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (84 min.) : DVD video, 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Philip Lopate ; introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961 ; "Jean Renoir le patron: la recherce du relatif", a 1967 episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1967 on Renoir, directed by Jacques Rivette and featuring a conversation with actor Charles Blavette about the film ; new video essay about the making of Toni with film scholar Christopher Faulkner PLUS: an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1956 pieceof Renoir about the film.

In French with English subtitles.

Gaumont présente ; les films Marcel Pagnol présentent ; film de Jean Renoir ; screenplay by Jean Renoir and Jacques Levert ; adaptation and dialogue, Jean Renoir ; producer, Pierre Gaut ; directed by Jean Renoir.

Charles Blavette, Édouard Delmont, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia, Max Dalban, Andrex, André Kovachevitch and Paul Bozzi.

"In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, Toni follows the eponymous Italian migrant (Charles Blavette), whose tempestuous affairs with two women -- the faithful Marie (Jenny Hélia) and the flirtatious Josefa (Celia Montalván) -- unleash a wave of tragedy. Making use of nonprofessional actors, on-location shooting, and the resources of the great Marcel Pagnol’s Provence studio, Renoir crafted a marvel of poetic feeling that anticipated Italian neorealism and became a favorite of the directors of the French New Wave."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.

Blavette, Charles, 1902-1967.

Delmont, Edouard, 1883-1955.

Montalván, Celia.

Hélia, Jenny, 1906-1992.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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