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Casque d'Or [DVD] [1952] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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Casque d'Or [DVD] [1952] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Simone Signoret
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Odette Barencey
  • Directors: Jacques Becker
  • Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Jan 2005
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006HC0GY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,321 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tres Bon, Becker, 12 Jun 2007
By Mark Pearce "''Chinatown''" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Tragic,beautifully mounted tale set in the criminal underworld of Paris in the late 19th century.
Simone Signoret plays a good time girl who moves in dubious circles but who inspires affection, lust and death among a group of criminals ranging from kingpin Leca (Claude Dauphin)to pretty boy Roland (William Sabatier) and on finally to ex-con turned carpenter Manda (Serge Reggiani)who is drawn despite himself into her web.
Superlative performances from Reggiani and Signoret as the doomed lovers who cannot escape their past with Signoret benefitting from Robert Le Febvre's breathtaking camerawork.
Truffaut criticised this work as typical of a "quality of tradition" that's time had gone but Becker directs with such style and pace and an intoxicating sensuousness that rightly casts Casque D'Or as one of the greatest French films of any age.
Magnificent in every way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just a pretty picture, 10 Mar 2009
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Casque D'Or may take a little while to get into, with the first half hour being largely milieu and set-up, but once the plot kicks in it's compelling. Seen today it seems certain to have been one of Scorsese's influences in Gangs of New York, not least because Jacques Becker takes the standard period costume drama setting and then plays a down-and-dirty movie that pays no attention to the niceties you're expecting: these characters really are low lives. The knife-fight is tough stuff, and its aftermath beautifully staged, and the finale has real emotional power - not least the shots of Serge Reggiani's almost-dead waltz with Simone Signoret that in a more 'modern' (1940-50s) setting would have pegged out his fate from the moment he met her. Having only seen Signoret in her later haggard roles, it was also a surprise to see just how luminous she was in her youth. Impressive stuff.

Criterion's Region 1 DVD has an impressive array of extras - audio commentary by Peter Cowie, home movie footage from the set, 2 extracts from French documentary series Cinéastes de Notre Temps, a 1963 interview with Simone Signoret, a 1995 interview with Serge Reggiani and a booklet.
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