Jean Renoir — Playwright (25)
Catherine (1927) [Movie] Douban
Une vie sans joie
director:
Albert Dieudonné / Jean Renoir
actor:
凯瑟琳·海斯琳
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Albert Dieudonné
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other title:
卡特琳
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Une vie sans joie
Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor's wife and her friends. This is made clear in a first scene where she is asked to get the key of the mayor's desk at a cultural party the wife is attending. She is harassed by the whole elite who dislike the intrusion of the maid. In this scene it's made clear also that the wife has a secret lover who will later challenge the mayor's political career and will use Catherine as a scapegoat for his own ambitions. This role of "bad guy" is played by Renoir himself. The mayor who is fond of Catherine and is afraid that she'll be more victimized by his wife asks his sister to give Catherine a position in her own household. The sister has a son with tuberculosis (role played by Dieudonné). He's so weak he has no success with women of his class but of course Catherine will like instantly this fragile man. He dies after kissing Catherine while the rest of the town is celebrating carnival. The kissing scene at the window mixed with the fireworks is a brilliant moment of silent melodrama. Catherine is in mourning and because of that driven away by the mayor's wife and her friends. It is indecent that a servant girl is in mourning and shows public affection for someone who is not from her own social status. The emotions of Catherine are the element of disorder in the social ordered world of the rich. Catherine goes away and hides in a cheap hotel in the city where she is also bullied by a local pimp who sees in her an easy target to exploit. By accident Catherine is seen in the hotel window with the pimp, so more reason for gossip by the elite. When she returns to the village looking for a job she is rejected everywhere, even by the local Christian relief organization of which the mayor's wife became president. She meets the mayor again who is shocked by the attitude of the town, takes her in his home again and promotes her to his secretary. The wife is furious of course and leaves her husband to live with her mother. It is start of a slander campaign against the political credibility of the mayor. The lover of the mayor's wife sees what is happening as a golden opportunity and makes a public attack on the moral character of the mayor (what's new under the sun?) Catherine wants to avoid the downfall of her protector and leaves the mayor, explaining herself in a note. She hides in an old tram for the rain while the mayor is driving around in his car frantically looking for the girl. Two vagabonds are thrown out of a pub and out of frustration push the tram car, so it starts a crazy race up and down the hills towards the bridge and the valley abyss. Catherine is already accepting her death but is saved in time by the mayor who has made his choice for the girl. The social implications of his choice are not shown but are clear for all.
The Little Match Girl (1928) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
director:
让·雷诺阿
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Jean Tédesco
actor:
凯瑟琳·海斯琳
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Eric Barclay
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other title:
卖火柴的小女孩
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La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
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An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
Tire-au-flanc (1928) [Movie] Douban
Tire-au-flancThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
André Dumas
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Nino Formicola
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other title:
雷诺阿小剧场
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Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir
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Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
The Elusive Corporal (1962) [Movie] Douban
Le caporal épinglé
other title:
逃兵
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Le caporal épinglé
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An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.
Les bas-fonds (1936) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Les bas-fonds
other title:
低下层
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底层
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Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
The Southerner (1945) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Southerner
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
扎查瑞·斯考特
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贝蒂·菲尔德
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other title:
大地之光
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南方人
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Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
The Woman on the Beach (1947) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Woman on the Beach
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
琼·贝内特
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Robert Ryan
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other title:
海滩上的女人
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海滨艳妇(港)
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Woman on the Beach is a controversial film noir, an intense psychological drama about the world�s leading artist, recently blinded, who is obsessed with his condition and takes out his frustrations on his beautiful wife. A Coast Guard officer, recuperating from injuries suffered during the war, is drawn into their quiet conflict, and they become locked in an odd symbiotic relationship. This was the last American film by the French screen legend Jean Renoir. Critically panned when first released, the film later developed a cult following by many who consider it an existential masterpiece.
A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fianc�e Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness — and sets out to prove it. This was the fifth and final American film by the great French writer-director Jean Renoir.
A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fianc�e Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness — and sets out to prove it. This was the fifth and final American film by the great French writer-director Jean Renoir.
包法利夫人 (1933) [Movie] Douban
Madame Bovary
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
Max Dearly
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Valentine Tessier
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other title:
Madame Bovary
《包法利夫人》是由让·雷诺阿执导的剧情片,Max Dearly、Valentine TessierPierre Renoir 等参加演出。该片讲述了爱玛为了追求浪漫和优雅的生活而自甘堕落与人通奸,最终因为负债累累无力偿还而身败名裂,服毒自杀。
La Marseillaise (1938) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Marseillaise
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
Pierre Renoir
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Lise Delamare
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other title:
马赛曲
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라 마르세예즈
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1938 film by Jean Renoir
Night at the Crossroads (1932) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
La Nuit du carrefour
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
皮埃尔·雷诺阿
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Georges Térof
other title:
十字路口的夜晚
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La Nuit du carrefour
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Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
The Human Beast (1938) [Movie] TMDB Eggplant.place IMDb Douban WikiData
La bête humaine
other title:
衣冠禽兽
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La bête humaine
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1938 film by Jean Renoir
Experiment in Evil (1959) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
让-路易斯·巴劳特
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Teddy Bilis
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other title:
科德利尔的遗嘱
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Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier
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Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...
Lunch on the Grass (1959) [Movie] Douban
Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe
director:
让·雷诺阿
actor:
保罗·默里斯
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夏尔·布拉韦特
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other title:
草地上的午餐
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Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe
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Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (his family owns chemical corporations that will profit from his ideas) is stiff, intellectual, and sterile. To celebrate his engagement to a German cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men. Written by {[email protected]}
Elena and Her Men (1956) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Elena et les hommes
other title:
艾琳娜和她的男人们
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Elena et les hommes
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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 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.