3 Films by Louis Malle
aka: Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; Au revoir les enfants
France 1971-1987, 357 minutes
Dir. Louis Malle
In French with English subtitles
Aroview: Four poetic tales of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more than just coming-of-age stories. They are the director’s ongoing epiphanies in a world gone wrong.
DVD Features
This Criterion Collector's set includes 254 minutes of supplementary content:
- Interviews with actor Candice Bergen and biographer Pierre Billard
- Excerpts from a French TV program filmed on the sets of Murmur of the Heart and Lacombe, Lucien
- Audio interviews with Malle from 1974, 1988, and 1990
- "The Immigrant", Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short comedy, featured in Au revoir les enfants
- A profile of the character of Joseph from Au revoir les enfants, created by filmmaker Guy Magen, in 2005
- Essays by critics Michael Sragow, Pauline Kael, and Philip Kemp and historian Francis J. Murphy, as well as a filmography
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