The films of
Jean Renoir
Catherine (1924)
Albert Dieudonné 		  La Fille de l'eau (1925)
Jean Renoir 		  Nana (1926)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
Jean Renoir, one of the greatest figures in French cinema, began his film-making career with this poignant little melodrama, an obscure film which deserves wider appreciation...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s first full length film, La Fille de l’eau, is an improbable yet compelling melange of melodrama, neo-realism, farce and surrealism...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s second full-length film is this lavish and fairly faithful adaptation of Emile Zola’s classic novel, Nana. The film’s extravagances include spacious...  [More...]  
Marquitta (1927)
Jean Renoir 		  Sur un air de Charleston (1927)
Jean Renoir 		  La Petite marchande d'allumettes (1928)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
Practically ruined after the commercial failure of his lavish period piece Nana (1926), Jean Renoir willingly agreed to direct this conventional melodrama for the production company La Société des Artistes...  [More...]   With some material left over from his previous film, Nana , Jean Renoir decided to indulge his whim for comic fantasy in this bizarre short film which defies any attempt at rational interpretation...  [More...]   La Petite marchande d’allumettes is regarded by many critics as one of the best of Jean Renoir’s silent films. The director’s genius is revealed in the film’s remarkable fantasy sequence which...  [More...]  
Tire au flanc (1928)
Jean Renoir 		  Le Bled (1929)
Jean Renoir 		  Le Tournoi dans la cité (1929)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
Jean Renoir’s most overtly comical and anarchistic film, Tire au flanc is the definitive comedy of army life, a popular subject at the time (stemming most probably from the unpopularity of military service)...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s final silent film is this rather ordinary but nonetheless watchable mix of melodrama and comedy, which reflects the French cinema-going appetite at the time for comforting dramas in exotic colonial...  [More...]    [More...]  
La Chienne (1931)
Jean Renoir 		  On purge bébé (1931)
Jean Renoir 		  Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
Having failed to make much of a mark in cinema’s silent era, Jean Renoir made the transition to sound films which much greater success than many of his contemporaries...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s most outrageous comedy, based on a stage play by Georges Feydeau, provides ample material for its comic stars to prove their worth...  [More...]   Boudu sauvé des eaux is amongst Renoir’s most human and certainly funniest films. It is a warm-hearted satire on the hypocrisies of bourgeois family life...  [More...]  
La Nuit du carrefour (1932)
Jean Renoir 		  Madame Bovary (1933)
Jean Renoir 		  Toni (1935)
Jean Renoir 		 
     
Jean Renoir is not normally associated with the crime thriller genre, but in La Nuit du carrefour he manages to turn out a more than satisfactory adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel...  [More...]   Although not as well known and as celebrated as Jean Renoir’s subsequent films, Madame Bovary occupies an important part in the director’s film-making career...  [More...]   Jean Renoir’s bold experiment with neo-realism is only partially successful (marred mainly by wooden acting), but it provides an interesting diversion from the artificial studio-based cinema of the time. Filmed...  [More...]  

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