Jean Renoir and Short Take Rick on 01 Jul 2008
Short Take: French Cancan
In 1939, The Rules of the Game was such a failure with the French public that they threw chairs at the screen and set newspapers alight in the theaters. It wasn’t much more popular with critics, and in 1940, director Jean Renoir fled Paris to make films abroad. He ended up in — [...]
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