An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jean Renoir
French Cancan (1955) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola Read More »
Little Theater of Jean Renoir (1970) Jean Renoir, Nino Formicola, Milly, Roger Trapp
Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, “The Last Christmas Dinner,” is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Read More »
The Golden Coach (1952) Jean Renoir, Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
In Peru in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. Read More »
The Lower Depths (1936) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Voted 1936’s best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the “gutter” play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Read More »
Backbiters (1924) Albert Dieudonné, Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Albert Dieudonné, Eugénie Nau, Drama
Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor’s wife and her friends. Read More »
The River (1951) Jean Renoir, Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Drama, Romance
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir, Deanna Durbin, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Comedy, Drama
Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell, however, there is no Mrs. Holliday: it’s the guise assumed by idealistic missionary Ruth (Durbin) to sneak a group of Chinese war orphans into the US. Read More »
Le testament du Docteur Cordelier / The Doctor’s Horrible Experiment (1959) Jean Renoir, Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Bilis, Sylviane Margollé, Drama, Horror
Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. Read More »
Le crime de Monsieur Lange / The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) Jean Renoir, René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. Read More »