| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
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 humanity. 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 narrative-a stinging commentary on class and sexual divisions-to an unforgettably ironic conclusion |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Film |
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In Process Record |
| Performer |
Georges Flamant, Janie Marèse, Magdeleine Bérubet, Michel Simon |
| Event |
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1931 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, French.
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Foreign films.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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Drama
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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Drama.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures, French.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Renoir, Jean, film director
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Flamant, Georges, actor
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Marèse, Janie, actor
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Bérubet, Magdeleine, actor
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Simon, Michel, actor
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The Criterion Collection (Firm),
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Kanopy (Firm)
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