Shock Treatment [1973] (BLU)
Alain Jessua
Synopsis
French film legends Alain Delon (PURPLE NOON, LE SAMOURAÏ) and Annie Girardot (ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, THE PIANO TEACHER) star in the 1972 thriller from writer/director Alain Jessua (ARMAGUEDON, THE DOGS) that became a cause célèbre of international cinema: When a career woman (Girardot) checks into the exclusive seaside clinic of a doctor (Delon) famed for his unorthodox rejuvenation treatments, she'll discover a nightmare of bourgeois depravities, medical atrocities and the eye-popping full-frontal nudity that sparked worldwide headlines. Robert Hirsch (HIVER 54, L'ABBÉ PIERRE), Michel Duchaussoy (MESRINE) and Jeanne Colletin (EMMANUELLE) co-star in this "political allegory fashioned as a horror story"(Time Out) – released in the UK as DOCTOR IN THE NUDE – now scanned uncut in 2k from the original interpositive.
Special Features:
- New 2k Restoration
- Alain Jessua – The Lone Deranger: Interview with Bernard Payen, Curator at The Cinémathèque Française
- Koering's Scoring – Interview with Soundtrack Composer René Koering
- Director's Disorder – Interview with Director Alain Jessua
- Drumrunning – René Koering Commentary on Three Sequences
- Trailer
- Reversible Wrap
- Limited Edition Slipcover
- CD Soundtrack
Product Details
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85.1
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Severin
- Release Date: 10/27/2020
- Run Time: 87 minutes
- Catalogue #: 94319
- Region: A