Line #27 Creator/JeanRenoir


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3	->''"Tu comprends, sur cette Terre, il y a quelque chose d’effroyable, c’est que tout le monde a ses raisons."''
4	->(''[[GrayAndGrayMorality "The most terrible thing in the world is that everyone has their reasons."]]'')
5	-->-- '''Octave''' (Jean Renoir) in ''The Rules of the Game''
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7	Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was an acclaimed French film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor whose work spanned across five decades.
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9	He was the second son of {{impressionis\|m}}t painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. His father had a major influence on the young man, who after serving in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, returned to nurse his father in his final days. While recovering from a battle wound, Renoir saw films by Creator/CharlieChaplin or ''Charlot'' as he was known in France and became interested in movies. He made some interesting silent films starring first wife Catherine Hessling and when sound came in, pioneered several bold new techniques which made him a great talent in French cinema. Already in the 30s, years ahead of his time, Renoir pioneered use of recording sound on location, as well as several kind of camera techniques that make his movies seem more modern than most old films. In terms of content, Renoir brought a viewpoint of great complexity and challenged all kinds of received ideas of France and nationalism at the time.
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11	His film ''Film/TheGrandIllusion'' became an international hit and got him nominated for Best Picture at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. His films after that include a proto-Noir ''La Bete humaine'' and a historical drama ''La Marseillaise'' that is one of the greatest films about UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution. His final film before the Second World War was ''The Rules of the Game'', which proved to be highly controversial in the year of its release but would later be VindicatedByHistory as a masterpiece of French Cinema and regularly competed with ''Citizen Kane'' on the all-time great films list. During [=WW2=], he made some films in Hollywood that did not have the same impact as his French films, after the war, Renoir shot a film in India, ''The River'' and then made an ambitious trilogy of films that pioneered the use of color, achieving in cinema what his father did with painting. He was regarded as [[TheAce "le Patron'']] or "The Boss" by the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and in his retirement in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, served as TheMentor for several young filmmakers who regularly visited him.
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13	!! Selected filmography:
14	* ''Nana'' (1926) - Adapted from Creator/EmileZola[[index]]
15	* ''Film/LaChienne'' ("The Bitch") (1931) - Later remade into the American FilmNoir ''Film/ScarletStreet'' directed by Creator/FritzLang.
16	* ''Film/BouduSavedFromDrowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux)'' (1932) - Later loosely remade into the American comedy ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills''.
17	* ''Toni'' (1935) - A film which was shot in location with nonprofessionals, years before Italian neorealism.
18	* ''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'' (1936)
19	* ''Film/ADayInTheCountry (Partie de campagne)'' (1936)
20	* ''Film/TheGrandIllusion (La Grande illusion)'' (1936) - Perhaps his most famous film.
21	* ''The Lower Depths'' (1936) - from the play by Maxim Gorky.
22	* ''La Marseillaise'' (1937) - UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified non-vilified]] version.
23	* ''Film/LaBeteHumaine'' (1938) - Also remade into an American film by Creator/FritzLang, the original is pretty Noir itself.
24	* ''Film/TheRulesOfTheGame'' (La Règle du jeu)'' (1939) - Regarded today as his masterpiece.
25	* ''Film/ThisLandIsMine'' (1943)
26	* ''Film/TheSoutherner (L'homme du sud)'' (1945)
27	* ''The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre)'' (1945)
28	* ''Film/{{The River\|1951}}'' (1951) -- in English
29	* ''Film/TheGoldenCoach'' (1952) -- also in English
30	* ''Film/FrenchCancan'' (1954)
31	* ''Film/ElenaAndHerMen (Elena et les hommes)'' (1956) - Starring Creator/IngridBergman.
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36	* HeAlsoDid: He is the author of the play ''Orvet'', an important memoir on his father ''Renoir, My Father'', his own memoirs (''My Life and My Films'' and a novel (''The Notebooks of Captain George''). In his early career, he was a designer of ceramics.

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