The films of
Jean Renoir

La Vie est à nous (1936)
Jacques Becker
  Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
Jean Renoir
  Les Bas-fonds (1936)
Jean Renoir
 
     
Made in February and March of 1936 by a team of French Communist Party activists and sympathetic film technicians, La Vie est à nous is a bold and effective piece of party propaganda...  [More...]   In Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, Renoir uses a simple story to reflect the political mood of the time. The film has a distinctly anti-capitalistic message...  [More...]   In its time, Les Bas-fonds was something of a groundbreaking film, offering an honest and humanist portrait of those at the lowest end of the social spectrum...  [More...]  

Partie de campagne (1936)
Jean Renoir
  La Grande illusion (1937)
Jean Renoir
  La Marseillaise (1938)
Jean Renoir
 
     
Often cited as one of Jean Renoir’s best works, Partie de Campagne is a magnificently crafted adaptation of a popular short story by Guy de Maupassant...  [More...]   One of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema history, La Grande illusion is a film of enduring popularity and one of the most powerful anti-war films of the Twentieth century...  [More...]   The only one of Renoir’s films that can truly be described as epic, La Marseillaise succeeds as both an accurate historical account of an important part of French history and as a reflection of the mood of the...  [More...]  

La Bête humaine (1938)
Jean Renoir
  La Règle du jeu (1939)
Jean Renoir
  Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
Jean Renoir
 
     
La Bête humaine is a powerful study of the darker side of human nature. It comes from possibly the greatest period of French cinema, from a great director...  [More...]   One of the undisputed all time classics of French cinema, La Règle du Jeu is also widely regarded as Jean Renoir’s best film, a sublime masterpiece of filmmaking technique and satirical verve...  [More...]   Le Carrosse d’Or is the film which marked the return of Jean Renoir to European film-making after his 13 year stay in the United States. It is a lavish production...  [More...]  

French Cancan (1954)
Jean Renoir
  Elena et les hommes (1956)
Jean Renoir
  Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959)
Jean Renoir
 
     
French cancan marks director Jean Renoir’s spectacular return to French cinema, after a 15 year long absence, working mainly in the United States...  [More...]   On the surface this appears to be a virtual remake of La règle du jeu, Renoir’s 1930s classic. Whilst there are many similarities, in terms of the characters and plot...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s first collaboration with French Television yielded this quirky yet faithful adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel...  [More...]  

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1959)
Jean Renoir
  Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
Jean Renoir
   
     
Although nearing the end of his film-making career, Renoir still managed to deliver this charming satirical comedy. Whilst the film lacks the punch and intensity of the great director’s earlier films...  [More...]   Nearing the end of his film-making career, Jean Renoir returned to the subject of his most famous film, La Grande illusion, a powerful study of male conflict and camaraderie...  [More...]    

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