La chienne.
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 cash...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | In English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Criterion Collection,
1931.
Kanopy Streaming, 2021. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |