Jean Renoir and Short Take Rick on 01 Jul 2008
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 — [...]
Tags: French Cancan, Gabin, Renoir
Jean Renoir and Review Rick on 22 May 2008
What can I say about Jean Renoir? In my humble opinion, he is perhaps the best that ever was, if you discount, Kurosawa or Fellini or Bergman or . . . ok, ok, so I’m not ready to pronounce him the greatest, but based on his output before 1940, he’d have to be [...]
Tags: Gabin, La Bete Humaine, Renoir, Simone Simon
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