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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir | |
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 Renoir in 1959 | |
| Born | 15 September 1894 |
| Died | 12 February 1979 (aged 84) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, author |
| Years active | 1924–1978 |
| Notable work | La Grande Illusion, La règle du jeu, The Southerner, The River, The Golden Coach, French Cancan |
| Spouses | |
| Partner | Marguerite Renoir (1932–1939) |
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Jean Renoir (French: [ʁənwaʁ]; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.[1] In 2002, he was ranked fourth on the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of the greatest directors. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. With Claude, he made The River (1951), the first color film shot in India. A lifelong lover of theater, Renoir turned to the stage for The Golden Coach (1952) and French Cancan (1955). He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an auteur; the critic Penelope Gilliatt said a Renoir shot could be identified "in a thousand miles of film."[2][3][4][5]
Pauline Kael wrote that "At his greatest, Jean Renoir expresses the beauty in our common humanity—the desires and hopes, the absurdities and follies, that we all, to one degree or another, share."[6] Per The New York Times: "The style that ran through Mr. Renoir's films — a mixture of tenderness, irony and Gallic insouciance‐was caught in a famous line from his 1939 masterpiece, The Rules of the Game. It was spoken by Octave, played by the director himself: 'You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.'”[5]
- ^ Frierson, Michael (28 March 2018). Film and Video Editing Theory: How Editing Creates Meaning. Taylor & Francis. p. 315. ISBN 978-1-315-47499-1. OCLC 1030518417.
- ^ O'Shaughnessy, Martin; O'Shaughnessy, Professor of Film Studies Martin (20 October 2000). Jean Renoir. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780719050633. OCLC 606344172.
- ^ Braudy, Leo (15 July 1994). "The Auteur Who Coined the Word : Commentary: A Jean Renoir expert says UCLA's retrospective attempts to answer age-old questions about art". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ François, Truffaut (1954). "A Certain Tendency of French Cinema (Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français)". newwavefilm.com. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ a b Montgomery, Paul (14 February 1979). "Jean Renoir, Director of 'Grand Illusion' Film, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ Kael, Pauline. The Age of Movies. p. 40.
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