Le Beau Serge (Blu-ray Disc, 2013)

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• Le Beau Serge available on February 23 2024 from Zavvi for 16.59
  
• Le Beau Serge available on November 04 2023 from TheHut for 16.59
  
• Le Beau Serge (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray) available on March 14 2015 from Base for 10.19
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700961 ξ2 registered February 23 2024
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700961 ξ3 registered November 04 2023
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700961 ξ1 registered August 03 2018
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700961 ξ4 registered September 27 2014
  
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Gérard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy star in the first of their collaborations with the great Claude Chabrol. The director's masterful feature debut - ironic funny unsparing - is a revelation: another of that rare breed of film where the dusty formula might be used in full sincerity: Le Beau Serge marks the beginning of the Chabrol touch. In this first feature film of the French New Wave one year before Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows the dandyish François (Brialy of Godard's A Woman Is a Woman Rohmer's Claire's Knee and countless other cornerstones of 20th-century French cinema) takes a holiday from the city to his home village of Sardent where he reconnects with his old chum Serge (Blain) now a besotted and hopeless alcoholic and sly duplicitous carnal Marie (Bernadette Lafont). A grave triangle forms and a tragic slide ensues. From Le Beau Serge onward up to his final film Bellamy in 2009 the revered Chabrol would come to leave a significant and lasting impression upon the French cinema - frequently with great commercial success. It is with great pride that we present Le Beau Serge the kickstart of the Nouvelle Vague and of Chabrol's enormous body of work on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK for the first time. Special Features: Gorgeous new Gaumont restoration of the film in its original aspect ratio presented in 1080p on the Blu-ray New and improved English subtitles Original theatrical trailer A 56-minute documentary about the making of the film L'Avarice Avarice Chabrol's 1962 short film A lengthy booklet with a new and exclusive essay by critic Emmanuel Burdeau; excerpts of interviews and writing by Chabrol; and more

^ Le Beau Serge (Blu-ray Disc, 2013) EAN 5060000700961 (revised Aug 2018)
^ Le Beau Serge, Masters of Cinema. Zavvi. EAN 5060000700961 (revised Feb 2024)
^ Le Beau Serge, Masters of Cinema. TheHut. EAN 5060000700961 (revised Nov 2023)
^ Le Beau Serge (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray) Base. EAN 5060000700961 (revised Mar 2015)