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  • Actors: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia, Édouard Delmont, Max Dalban
  • Directors: Jean Renoir
  • Writers: Jean Renoir, Carl Einstein, Jacques Levert
  • Producers: Marcel Pagnol
  • Format: PAL
  • Language French, Italian, Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Eureka Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 17 April 2006
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000EGEW0O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,171 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company, Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion, it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound, authentic patois, lack of make-up, a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles, and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid melodrama lead to Toni often being labeled "the first 'neorealist' film". Renoir himself disagreed. Although Toni is acknowledged as a masterly forerunner of neo-realist preoccupations and techniques he wrote: "I do not think that is quite correct. The Italian films are magnificent dramatic productions, whereas in Toni I was at pains to avoid the dramatic." Toni's story centres around an Italian immigrant, Antonio Canova (Charles Blavette), a labourer at a local quarry who has become entangled in relationships with his landlady (Jenny Helia) and with the young, hot-blooded Spaniard, Josefa (Celia Montalvan). As Josefa's life disintegrates through rape and a necessitous marriage to the brutish foreman Albert (Max Dalban), Toni is caught up in a series of marriages gone sour and the psychological fragility of those he cares for. Despite the exquisite location backgrounds — the vineyards, rocky hilltops and verdant pathways surrounding the little village — Renoir makes no attempt to impose, through picturesqueness, the placid power of this Provencal backwater. Toni's direct style and theme (Luchino Visconti was assistant director) attained it classic status with the critics and directors of the French New Wave. Renoir's vision of realism approaches a purity sometimes found in documentary, whilst retaining the literary power and emotion of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Toni for the first time on DVD in the West.


Special Features

New progressive transfer • Video discussion - full details soon! • Promotional material gallery • New and improved optional English subtitles • 24-page booklet with copious reprints

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4.0 out of 5 stars Earthy document, 23 Mar 2009
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This film has a documentary-like earthiness. The unaffected style of camerawork and acting, and the quite linear story-line, reinforce this quality and give the film a strong impact. There is a scene deleted from the released print that you will learn about in the extras. Given the mayhem going on in the world at the time of its release, this bit of "censorship" seems astonishing. An interesting titbit - the film is not spoilt by the concession to taste.
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