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Gaumont
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. Constructed with elegant minimalism and shot, by the legendary Henri Decaë, with hushed eloquence, Le silence de la mer points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation (Léon Morin, Priest; Army of Shadows) yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Short Film, Interview, Documentary, Booklet
- The short 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946), director Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film
- New interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
- Code Name Melville (2008), a seventy-six-minute documentary on Melville’s time in the French Resistance and his films about it
- Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010), a forty-two-minute documentary about Le silence de la mer
- Interview with Jean-Pierre Melville from 1959
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira’s 1971 book Melville on Melville
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