La Poison (1951) Criterion 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC FLAC-SARTRE

The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France’s best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first major collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry’s witty dialogue and fleet pacing, this black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he’ll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry’s own post–World War II tangle with the law—a wrongful charge of collaborationism—La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on the misfortunes of others.
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TITLE...........: La Poison (1951)
STARS...........: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes
DIRECTOR........: Sacha Guitry
WRITERS.........: Sacha Guitry
GENRE...........: Comedy, Crime
TOMATOMETER.....: 100/81
IMDB SCORE......: 7.4
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043927
RUNTIME.........: 1h 25mn
SIZE............: 6.76 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 11000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1440x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-09-06
CHECKSUM........: 8A48392C551EC7F065769C234FDDBE03

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