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Jean Renoir
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Jean Renoir - what members say
review by Zamy from LONDON
24 September 2004
review by A customer from Lydbury North
Near Perfect 24 October 2008
review by A customer from Leyland
Une Crime tres populaire 5 April 2006
Jean Renoir - filmography
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Jean Renoir Collection
(7 discs)
(1998)
Starring: Julien Carette, Marcel Dalio, Georges Peclet
Director: Jean Renoir
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Seven films by French auteur Jean Renoir. La Grande Illusion (1937) is an archetypal prison escape film, generally regarded as Jean Renoir's most popular film of the 1930s and one which, although often seen as a humane and pacifist indictment of war, offers an ambiguous perspective on class ..read more »
 
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from 1,156 member
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The Golden Coach
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
Director: Jean Renoir
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The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell'arte company. Master director Jean Renoir's sumptuous tribute to the theatre, presented here in ..read more »
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from 113 members
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The River
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields
Director: Jean Renoir
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Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film, shot entirely on location in India, is a visual tour de force.
Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives ..read more »
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from 327 members
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This Land Of Mine
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders
Director: Jean Renoir
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Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.
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from 125 members
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Swamp Water
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Brennan, Dana Andrews
Director: Jean Renoir
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A hunter encounters a young girl living with her fugitive father in the swamps of Georgia. He falls in love with her and tries to persuade the fugitive to move with his daughter back into town.
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from 94 members
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Rules of the Game
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain
Director: Jean Renoir
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Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut ..read more »
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Partie De Campagne
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Sylvia Bataille, D'Arnoux Georges, Jane Marken
Director: Jean Renoir
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Adapted from a Maupassant story, A DAY IN THE COUNTRY is suffused with such an overpowering sense of reality that watching it can make one feel a bit like a voyeur. It stars Sylvia Bataille as Henriette Dufour and Georges Darnoux as Henri. They meet by chance when Henriette's father (Andre ..read more »
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Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
(1936)
Starring: Rene Lefevre, Jules Berry, Florelle
Director: Jean Renoir
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Told in flashback, this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...
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from 425 members
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Toni
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Andrex, Charles Blavette, Max Dalban
Director: Jean Renoir
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Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company, Jean Renoir's "Toni" is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion, it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events ..read more »
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from 285 members
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Boudu Saved From Drowning
on DVD
(1932)
Starring: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Jean Daste
Director: Jean Renoir
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Boudu is a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations.
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from 1,050 member
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La Chienne
(1931)
Starring: Michel Simon, Janie Marese
Director: Jean Renoir
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Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
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from 10 members
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Jean Renoir facts
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...What impresses most about a film by Jean Renoir is the complete authenticity of his characters who seem so true to life, with all their qualities and failing expertly disp...
