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Les Films du Jeudi
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying all of the filmmaker’s visual genius and fully imbued with his profound sense of humanity. A hangdog Michel Simon cuts a tragic figure as an unhappily married cashier and amateur painter who becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: that she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him. Renoir’s elegant compositions and camera movements carry this twisting and turning narrative—a stinging commentary on class and sexual divides—to an unforgettably ironic conclusion.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.19:1
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French 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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English
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1
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1 Disc |
DVD-9
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Supplements
- Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir from 1967
- New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner
- New restoration of On purge bébé (1931), Renoir
- Jean Renoir le patron: “Michel Simon” (1966), a ninety-minute French television program featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, moderated by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
- Insert featuring an essay by film scholar and critic Ginette Vincendeau
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Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
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