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Elena and Her Men
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French Cancan
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The Golden Coach
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The Golden Coach
The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell’arte company. Master director Jean Renoir’s sumptuous tribute to the theater, presented here in the English version he favored, is set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi and built around vivacious and volatile star Anna Magnani.
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star. This celebration of life, art and the City of Light (with a cameo by Edith Piaf) is a Technicolor tour de force by a master of modern cinema.
Elena and Her Men
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men (Elena et les homes) stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
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Supplements
- Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
- Video introduction by director Martin Scorsese
- Jean Renoir parle de son art: part one of Jacques Rivette’s three-part interview with Jean Renoir
- A collection of rare production stills
- Insert featuring a new essay by writer Jonathan Rosenbaum on The Golden Coach, French Cancan, and Elena and Her Men, and an original essay by film critic Andrew Sarris
- Video introduction by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Jean Renoir parle de son art: part two of Jacques Rivette’s three-part interview with Jean Renoir
- Video interview with set designer Max Douy
- A collection of rare production stills
- Insert featuring an original essay by film critic Andrew Sarris
- Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
- Jean Renoir—Hollywood and Beyond: part two of a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by David Thompson, featuring reflections on Renoir from his family, friends, collaborators, and admirers
- Jean Renoir parle de son art: part three of Jacques Rivette’s three-part interview with Jean Renoir
- A collection of production stills
- Insert featuring an original essay by Renoir historian Christopher Faulkner