Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

  • Birthday: 1894-09-15
  • Deathday: 1979-02-12
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Also know as: 장 르누아르

Biography

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Filmography

The Rules of the Game

1939

As Octave

Louis Lumière

1968

As Self

Quand Jean devint Renoir

2017

As Self (archive footage)

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

As Compère le Loup

Langlois

1970

As Self

Jean Renoir parle de son art

1961

As Interviewee

François Truffaut l'insoumis

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Charleston Parade

1927

As Angel

Le Parti du cinéma

2021

As Self (voice) (archive footage)

A Day in the Country

1946

As Père Poulain

Backbiters

1927

As le sous-préfet

The Spanish Earth

1937

As Narrator (voice)

Life Is Ours

1936

As Le patron du bistrot

Those of Our Land

1915

As Self

The Emma Bovary Trial

2021

As Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

La Bête Humaine

1938

As Cabuche

Mam'zelle Nitouche

1931

As Master sergeant (uncredited)

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

2015

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Whirlpool of Fate

1925

As Set Decoration

The Rules of the Game

1939

As Director

Grand Illusion

1937

As Director

La Chienne

1931

As Director

The Little Match Girl

1928

As Director

La Bête Humaine

1938

As Director

The Woman on the Beach

1947

As Director

The Elusive Corporal

1962

As Director

Picnic on the Grass

1959

As Director

Madame Bovary

1934

As Director

A Day in the Country

1946

As Director

The Southerner

1945

As Director

This Land Is Mine

1943

As Director

Swamp Water

1941

As Director

French Cancan

1955

As Director

The River

1951

As Director

Life Is Ours

1936

As Director

The Lower Depths

1936

As Director

Nana

1926

As Director

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

As Director

The Sad Sack

1928

As Director

Toni

1935

As Director

Elena and Her Men

1956

As Director

Night at the Crossroads

1932

As Director

The Golden Coach

1952

As Director

Charleston Parade

1927

As Director

The Tournament

1929

As Director

Le Bled

1929

As Director

Baby's Laxative

1931

As Director

Whirlpool of Fate

1925

As Director

Backbiters

1927

As Director

A Salute to France

1944

As Director

A Bum Deal

1935

As Director

Marquitta

1927

As Director

Chotard and Co.

1933

As Director

La Marseillaise

1938

As Director

The Ways of Love

1950

As Director

Tosca

1941

As Co-Director

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943

As Co-Director

Backbiters

1927

As Editor

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

As Producer

Whirlpool of Fate

1925

As Producer

This Land Is Mine

1943

As Producer

Nana

1926

As Producer

The Rules of the Game

1939

As Producer

Backbiters

1927

As Producer

La Marseillaise

1938

As Producer

The Little Match Girl

1928

As Producer

The River

1951

As Producer

Grand Illusion

1937

As Screenplay

The Rules of the Game

1939

As Screenplay

The Woman on the Beach

1947

As Screenplay

The River

1951

As Screenplay

French Cancan

1955

As Adaptation

The Southerner

1945

As Writer

Toni

1935

As Author

The Tournament

1929

As Adaptation

Baby's Laxative

1931

As Writer

Elena and Her Men

1956

As Writer

A Day in the Country

1946

As Writer

Little Red Riding Hood

1930

As Writer

The Golden Coach

1952

As Screenplay

French Cancan

1955

As Writer

Marquitta

1927

As Adaptation

The Lower Depths

1936

As Writer

This Land Is Mine

1943

As Screenplay

Picnic on the Grass

1959

As Screenplay

Chotard and Co.

1933

As Writer

Boudu Saved from Drowning

1932

As Screenplay

The Little Match Girl

1928

As Writer

The Sad Sack

1928

As Writer

La Marseillaise

1938

As Writer

Carola

1973

As Writer

Cristobal's Gold

1940

As Dialogue

Madame Bovary

1934

As Screenplay

The Elusive Corporal

1962

As Writer

Night at the Crossroads

1932

As Screenplay

Backbiters

1927

As Screenplay

Life Is Ours

1936

As Writer

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936

As Screenplay

La Chienne

1931

As Screenplay

A Salute to France

1944

As Screenplay

La Bête Humaine

1938

As Screenplay

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