Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Previously Owned DVD)

Condition: Disc One (Vive La Tour/Humain, Trop Humain/Place De La République) Has Some VERY Minor Marks And Scratches. Disc Two (Phantom India Ep 1-4) In Very Good Condition. Disc Three (Phantom India Ep 5-7) Has Some Minor Discolouration. Disc Four (Calcutta) In Very Good Condition. Disc Five (God’s Country) Has Some VERY Minor Scratching. Disc Six (…And The Pursuit of Happiness) In Good Condition. Slipcover In Good Condition. 

ECLIPSE SERIES 2: THE DOCUMENTARIES OF LOUIS MALLE

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.

VIVE LE TOUR HUMAIN, TROP HUMAIN PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE In his three documentaries set in France, Malle visits the back roads of the Tour de France. a northern automotive plant, and one bustling Parisian street corner.

PHANTOM INDIA Malle's seven-part journey to India is his ground-breaking, epic masterpiece.

CALCUTTA This companion piece to Phantom India hauntingly evokes a city on the edge of oblivion.

GOD'S COUNTRY America's heartland, Malle-style. A gripping portrait of the ups and downs of a Minnesota farming community.

... AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Malle's lively cross section of everyday American citizens who, like him, are recent immigrants to