Synopsis
One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair’s À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans. Featuring lighthearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, À nous la liberté is both a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight.
Cast
| Emile | Henri Marchand |
| Louis | Raymond Cordy |
| Jeanne | Rolla France |
| Paul Imaque | Paul Ollivier |
| Paul | Jacques Shelley |
| Maud | Germaine Aussey |
Credits
| Director | René Clair |
| Music | Georges Auric |
| Art direction | Lazare Meerson |
| Cinematography | Georges Perinal |
| Editing | René Le Henaff |
| Costume design | René Hubert |
| Musical direction | Armand Bernard |
| Production director | Frank Clifford |
Disc Features
- New digital transfer
- Deleted scenes
- Entr’acte (1924), the short Surrealist masterpiece by Clair and artist Francis Picabia
- Video interview with Madame Bronja Clair
- Film historian David Robinson on the Tobis lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
From the Current
À nous la liberté
by Aug 19, 2002Like many artists, René Clair has been the victim of the canon wars. Once considered one of the greatest of French filmmakers, Clair was lambasted by the aboriginal Cahiers du cinéma crowd for studio-bound artifice, lightweight story hyperconstruction, and all-too-quintessentially . . .
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