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| 100% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Image Entertainment Catalog: DVD Release date: 2007-06-12 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1968-02-19 Running time in minutes: 87 DVD aspect ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1968-02-19 Ean: 0715515024129 Upc: 715515024129  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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| A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France’s liberation. Forced to hide his identity, the eight-year-old, Claude (played delicately by first-time actor Alain Cohen), bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa (Michel Simon), who improbably becomes his friend and confidant. Poignant and lighthearted, The Two of Us was acclaimed director Claude Berri’s debut feature, based on his own childhood experiences, and gave the legendary Simon one of his most memorable roles in the twilight of his career. |
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Written on October 27, 2007 Summary: The Two of Us I waited years for this great film to be put on DVD, so must thank Criterion for doing it at last and doing such a great job. Criterion DVDs are a bit pricey, though, and I wish they would put at least two or three Jacques Tati films all together on one DVD! Written on October 6, 2007 Summary: A beautiful film I saw this film many many years ago, and it's indelibly etched in my heart.... beautifully done. Written on September 10, 2007 Summary: Wonderful Flick Absolutely charming. Michel Simon and the young Alain Cohen are so endearing I watched this film twice the first I opened it. No pain all gain, this during WWII in France, 1944-end of war.  Written on July 19, 2007 Summary: A very nice film This review is for the Criterion Colleciton DVD edition of the film. The Two of Us released in Fance as Le Vieil homme et l'enfant is about a young Jewish boy in World War II era France who hides from the Nazis with the parents of a neighbor. The neighbor's father is very anti-Semitic and the boy has to hide the fact that he is a Jew. The boy and the old man become fast friends despite his anti-Semitic remarks. He rants on about Jewish stereotypes but the boy does not flinch. The special features are Claude Berri's short film, Le Poulet, about a boy who befriends a chicken his parents get from a farm and intend to eat. There are also new and archival interviews with Berri and actor Alain Cohen. I found the movie to be very nice and a way to debunk arguments that anti-Semites make. Written on July 1, 2007 Summary: "If you have to direct, you've chosen the wrong actor." The addition of "The Two of Us" to the Criterion Collection disappoints only in having taken too long to come to fruition. Besides the justly celebrated film, we are given a booklet containing an appreciative review by critic emeritus David Sterritt and autobiographical excerpts by Francois Truffaut and the film's director, Claude Berri, together with the usual acknowledgments, scene titles, and cast listing. Extras on the DVD include Berri's Oscar-winning short, "Le Poulet," historical clips of veteran actor Michel Simon--the old man--and contemporary interviews with Berri and with Alain Cohen who played the child and who is instantly recognizable forty years later. It is a splendid store, and students who are assigned--as they will be-- criticisms to write will find everything they need and more for plagiarizing. All this and the movie, too! Simon, Cohen and Berri have been amply praised by critics with stronger credentials than my own, so I will allow the interviews and the film to speak for me. What higher praise for the acting than this from Berri: "If you have to direct, you've chosen the wrong actor." How better to summarize the film in one line than by the child's question before he meets the old man: "Why doesn't he like Jews if he is nice?" The old man is all that a surrogate grandfather should be: empathetic, loving, comforting, and playful. "I'll teach you myself," he says when the boy is cruelly treated at school, and teach him he does, from an abundant store of misinformation and prejudice, which the boy pumps from him with the impudent certainty that it is all nonsense. When the village children and their teacher are cruel, it is casual cruelty to a stranger from Paris, not to one of the hated Jews. The war is there, too, with propaganda from the radio, rationing, and overhead bombers, and we are aware, as the child is not, of the devastating consequences should he forget his Catholic prayer, his false name, or the need to dress and bathe in private. Berri, in his interview, says that amidst much suffering, it was possible to be happy during the war, as he was and as is the child in the movie. It is no less an indictment of racism that these two escape its tragic consequences. I don't speak French, but the subtitles are more than adequate. The dialogue isn't irrelevant, but most of the time the situation is more than clear with no dialogue at all. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2007-06-12 | 2007-06-19 | 2007-05-15 | 2007-07-17 | 2007-07-24 | 2007-06-26 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1968-02-19 | 1968 | 1969 | 1951-06-29 | 1952-07-28 | 1963 |
| Running time in minutes | 87 | 112 | 145 | 111 | 106 | 130 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.66:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.33:1 | 1.33:1 | 1.66:1 |
| Audience Rating | Unrated | R (Restricted) | - | Unrated | - | NR (Not Rated) |
| Format | Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC | Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC | Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0715515024129 | 0715515024426 | 0715515023726 | 0715515024723 | 0715515024921 | 0715515023924 |
| Upc | 715515024129 | 715515024426 | 715515023726 | 715515024723 | 715515024921 | 715515023924 |
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