La Verité [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot

Overview

In this drama, a beautiful woman stands accused of killing her lover. The prosecutor believes the crime was premeditated and seeks the death penalty. Her story is told via flashback and begins while she lived a free-spirited life upon the Left Bank. She is seen having a fling with her sister's boy friend while still continuing to have numerous encounters with others. The boy friend resents this and they have a terrible quarrel. She then becomes a prostitute and he, a music student, becomes a famous conductor. Later the woman hears that he has proposed to her sister and realizes that she does indeed love only him. She visits his flat and they make love; the next day he tosses her out, telling her she is a slut. The distraught woman decides to kill herself in front of him, but he only laughs derisively. Provoked, the woman shoots him, and then tries to kill herself. Just before she dies, the police come, arrest her, and put her on trial. Afterward, she is firmly convinced the jury will disbelieve the depth of her love because she was a hooker. The deeply disturbed woman then slashes her wrists with shards from a broken mirror.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/12/2019
UPC:	0715515226011
Original Release:	1960
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	2:08:00
Sales rank:	1,870

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Le Scandale Clouzot, a sixty-minute documentary from 2017 on Director Henri-Georges Clouzot; Interview from 1960 with Clouzot ; Interview with actor Brigitte Bardot from the 1982 documentary Brigitte Bardot telle qu'elle; New English Subtitle translation; Plus: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brigitte Bardot	Dominique Marceau
Charles Vanel	Master Guérin
Paul Meurisse	Master Éparvier
Marie-Jose Nat	Annie Marceau
Sami Frey	Gilbert Tellier
Louis Seigner	President of the Court
Jacqueline Porel	Defense Lawyer
Andre Oumansky	Ludovic
Christian Lude	Colonel
Suzy Willy	Mme. Marceau
Barbara Somers	Daisy
Rene Blancard	Attorney General
Fernand Ledoux	Court Physician
Louis Arbessier	Conservatory Professor
Jacques Perrin	Jérôme
Claude Berri	Georges
Jacques Hilling	'Sputnik' Client
Colette Castel	Young Lawyer
M. Cavalier	Actor
Igor Stravinsky	Composer

Technical Credits

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Jerome Geronimi

Henri-Georges Clouzot	Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Raoul J. Levy	Producer
Jerome Geronimi	Screenwriter