The Story of a Three Day Pass / La permission (1967) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1093]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1800x1080, ~ 4.0 Mbps | 1hr 28mn | 2.71 GB | English: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1800x1080, ~ 4.0 Mbps | 1hr 28mn | 2.71 GB | English: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Writer: Melvin Van Peebles
Stars: Harry Baird, Pierre Doris, Christian Marin
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, La permission, would become the stylistically innovative The Story of a Three Day Pass. Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger)—but what happens to their love when his furlough is over? Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Van Peebles creates an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship as well as a commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race that is playful, sarcastic, and stingingly subversive by turns, and that laid the foundation for the scorched-earth cinematic revolution he would let loose just a few years later.
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