Below is a link to Monsieur Edouard Manet’s painting Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Le (1959) aka Lunch on the Grass
http://brushpalletteandcoffee.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

Speaking, of paintings, Rick, did you hear about this blogger whom blog is being “censured to a certain degree” by Google …
… because of questionable (paintings) material(s) being showcased on his blog.
(I think that he is in the process of leaving Google and now showcasing the artwork here on WordPress. (I’am not sure, but I think his name is Robert, and he maybe a Frenchman. )

Being an artist, and a very “curious” (others may say, “nosy”) person, I visited his blog and it’s just like visiting the Louvre or any refined art museum.

But, in the end, I guess each visitor to his blog, will have to be the “judge” of whether his blog is “offensive” or not “offensive.”
Personally, I didn’t find his blog, to be “offensive” what so ever.
Merci!
Dcd

Hi! Rick,
I noticed that scene in the film too!… It kind of “stuck-out” so to speak, like the proverbial “sore thumb.” and it could have been due to the fact, that she “probably” belonged to the Bourgeoisie class, but on the other hand, I don’t think Boudu, belong to know “social class”? …or his case he had “no class”(meaning no manners…think of the sardine eating scene from the film.) and Renoir, was probably trying to point out how people from different social classes (or social standing) were/are treated in society.(and since he (Renoir) was a Frenchman, maybe how society treat the “underclass” in France.)

The reason that I use words such as “probably and perhaps” is because I ‘am not “quite” sure? About director Renoir, intention when it comes to this scene.
Btw, I don’t plan to summarize my feeling about the film Boudu sauvé des eaux.

Because I think that your review, summed this film up perfectly!…All that left for me to say is….Merci! Beaucoup! Rick, for the “reintro” duction to Director Renoir…

(Because I do own a copy of The Woman on the Beach (1947)…which I plan to rewatch this weekend..now, that I’am “paying closer attention” to his(Renoir) work on film.) and

(I’am also waiting for a copy of Renoir’s Bête humaine, La…(1938)aka The Human Beast. aka Judas Was a Woman.) Btw, I must give “credit” were “credit” is due, Tony(D’Ambra,) “introduced” me to this film.)
Tks,
Dcd

Rick, I have to admit that was one of the “funniest” scene in the film when the child who(m) didn’t want to go long with his Mère (after they retrieved his boat from the water) and then they both noticed Boudu under the tree with his dog and both of them (scurried (“ran”) away!)…It seemed he had that “effect” on women (or people in general…) Because of his lack of “social standing perhaps?!?”…(Shrug shoulders)…

…Rick said,”There is an open feel to this first scene in the park, a feel of freedom. It has a Dionysian look to it, or perhaps a Rousseau-like one that, for all it’s relative tameness (it is, after all, a park) still feels more open than the claustrophobia of Lestingois’ bookshop.”

I agree with you, wholeheartedly…
…Rick, you know how much the French (some of them at least… including several of the French painters’ that I listed below created some of the most beautiful scenic outdoor scenes on canvas.)
Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, (Renoir’s Père) Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, (One of my favorite artist) Berthe Morisot, and others…like, artist Seurat, whom painted the most famous scene of a day in the park entitled…
“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”;
Un dimanche après-midi à l’Ile de la Grande Jatte 1884-86;
[Oil on canvas, 81 x 120 in the Art Institute of Chicago]

Additional Information From Wikipedia
Painter Frederic Clay Bartlett and his second wife, Helen Birch Bartlett, amassed a collection of modern art which included A Sunday Afternoon. They purchased the painting for $22,000 from one of Seurat’s students.
It is now displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Gallery.I have linked a website which feature his (Seurat) most famous paintings.
http://www.visioncharter.net/artseurat.asp
Merci!
Dcd

All I can is I now know why you admire Monsieur Renoir and after watching this film twice (I’am ready for my 3rd viewing) reading your resource material, and watching the bonus extras on the disc…were really beneficial to me.

I plan to summarize (a very short summary mind you…How do you summary Renoir? now, I’am an expert on Renoir?!? after viewing one of his films twice! ) my feeling about this film tomorrow…when I return…

Merci!
Deedee

Hi! Rick,
I will probably comment on the film “Boudu saved from the water” or “drowning” over the weekend.
Because Sam Juliano, just send me a copy of the film “Boudu saved from the water or drowning.”
(Which I just received in my “post” (mailbox) yesterday.)

Take care! Rick,
and Thank-you! Sam Juliano,
Dcd