BFI: New 4K Restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terribles Detailed for Blu-ray
HomeBFI: New 4K Restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terribles Detailed for Blu-ray
Posted November 29, 2021 03:56 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terribles (1950), starring Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Marie Robain, Adeline Aucoc, and Roger Gaillard. The release will be available for purchase on December 13.
Official description: In this compelling tale of obsession, teenage siblings Paul and Elisabeth create an intense, private world in their shared room. They live, sleep, bicker and play out erotically charged games within their chambre, without heed to the world around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their disturbingly private realm, the scene is set for tragedy.
The mercurial, multi-talented Jean Cocteau provides the screenplay, adapted from his own haunting novel, while the single-minded, self-sufficient Jean-Pierre Melville directs. Despite their clashes on set, what emerges is a unique film that is as true to Cocteau's vision as it is to Melville's.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Official description: In this compelling tale of obsession, teenage siblings Paul and Elisabeth create an intense, private world in their shared room. They live, sleep, bicker and play out erotically charged games within their chambre, without heed to the world around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their disturbingly private realm, the scene is set for tragedy.
The mercurial, multi-talented Jean Cocteau provides the screenplay, adapted from his own haunting novel, while the single-minded, self-sufficient Jean-Pierre Melville directs. Despite their clashes on set, what emerges is a unique film that is as true to Cocteau's vision as it is to Melville's.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- Audio Commentary by Gilbert Adair (2004): archive commentary track by the novelist and film critic, whose novel The Holy Innocents was inspired by Les Enfants terribles
- Audio Commentary by Adrian Martin (2021): newly commissioned commentary track by the film scholar
- Ginette Vincendeau on Jean-Pierre Melville (2004, 19 mins): the film scholar and author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris on the filmmakers background and the recurring themes in his work
- Volker Schlöndorff interview (2004, 10 mins): the filmmaker discusses his apprenticeship under Jean-Pierre Melville
- Trailer
- Gallery
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Dr Deborah Allison, an article and responding letter about the film from Sight and Sound in 1952 and 1953, director and writer biographies, notes on the extras and credits
- In French, with optional English subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
