Notes: | Based on "La femme de Paul" and "Le signe" by Guy de Maupassant. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Willy Kurant; archival 1966 interview with Chantal Goya; new video interviews with Goya, Kurant, and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin, conducted in 2005; video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni; Swedish television footage of Godard directing the "film within the film" scene; trailers; 16-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Adrian Martin and a reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Philippe Labro. Cinematography, Willy Kurant ; editor, Agnès Guillemot ; songs, Jean Jacques Debout. Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Debord, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Brigitte Bardot. DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono. In French with optional English subtitles.
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