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Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle DVD Collector's Set

5 Discs

SRP: $79.95

Criterion Store price:$63.96

Collector's Set Info

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.

Collector’s Set Includes Vive le Tour

Louis Malle 1962

In his short documentary Vive le Tour, Louis Malle presents his energetic evocation of the Tour de France. Humain, trop humain

Louis Malle 1973

In his documentary Humain, trop humain, Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant. Place de la République

Louis Malle 1974

In Place de la république, Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris. Phantom India

Louis Malle 1969

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy. 
When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil. God’s Country

Louis Malle 1985 . . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

Louis Malle 1986

In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.

My Criterion “Like most of Malle's films, his documentaries are immersive and present to the viewer a complete world. This one is well worth picking up.” “Equal parts beautiful, fascinating and infuriating. Great docos, but Malle dissecting everything through a prism of European socialism can be grating.” “(God's Country) an economic documentary from the ground level with no charts or talking heads, only average American lives devastated by bad policies.”

Brent Bollenbach “When I started Phantom India, I thought it was incredible. As I continued, I realized that Malle viewed the Indians in a racist and unrealistic way.”

David MacDonald “I don't mind Malle's films, but his documentaries seem over indulgent or dull to me. I somehow sat through all of Phantom India.”

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