Jean Renoir
"I'm not a director -- I'm a story-teller . . . The only thing I bring to this illogical, irresponsible, and cruel universe is my love."
Book review:
Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures
Biography
An excellent French website
Essays on the Net:
The Legacy of Babel: Language in Jean
Renoir's Grand Illusion
Reviews on the Net:
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange:
- Grand Illusion:
- Rules of the Game:
- The River:
- The Golden Coach:
- French Cancan:
Filmography:
- La Fille de l'eau (1924)
- Nana (1926)
- Charleson (1927)
- La P'tite Lili (1927)
- Marquitta (1927)
- Le Tournoi dans la Cite (1928)
- La petite marchande d'allumettes (The Little Match Girl, 1928)
- Tire-au-flanc (1928)
- Le Bled (1929)
- On purge bébé (Purging the Baby, 1931)
- La Chienne (The Bitch, 1931)
- La Nuit du carrefour (Night at the Crossroads, 1932)
- Chotard et Compagnie (Chotard and Company, 1932)
- Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning, 1932)
- Madame Bovary (1934)
- Toni (1935)
- Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange, 1935)
- La Vie est à nous (Life is ours\People of France, 1936)
- Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, 1936)
- Les Bas-fonds (The Lower Depths, 1936)
- La Grande illusion (1937)
- La Marseillaise (1938)
- La Bête humaine (The Human Beast, 1938)
- La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game, 1939)
- La Tosca (1940)
- Swamp Water (1941)
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943 - finished by Bruce Manning)
- This Land Is Mine (1943)
- Salute to France (1944)
- The Southerner (1945)
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
- The Woman on the Beach (1947)
- The River (1951)
- Le Carrosse d'or (The Golden Coach, 1952)
- French CanCan\Only the French Can (1955)
- Eléna et les hommes (Elena and Her Men\Paris Does Strange Things, 1956)
- Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959)
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Picnic on the Grass, 1959)
- Le Caporal epinglé (The Elusive Corporal, 1962)
- Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, 1971)
. . . back to The Pantheon!!!!