Jean Renoir films (1 Viewer)

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Impress your "film" friends with these three.....

Jean Renoir: Elena and Her Men (1957)
Elena et les hommes

"Set amidst the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, legendary director Jean Renoir's delirious romantic comedy stars a luminescent Ingrid Bergman in her most sensual role. Bergman plays a beautiful but impoverished Polish princess, Elena, who drives men of all sorts (from the upper classes to the hoi polloi) to fits of desperate love."


Some good uniforms from the 1890s including a scene of Napoleonic uniforms on display. Some VERY attractive ladies. Funny even with subtitles.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Jean_Renoir_Elena_and_Her_Men/70001710?trkid=226870

Jean Renoir: French Cancan (1956)

"Nineteenth century Paris comes vibrantly alive in director Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the can-can all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women -- an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naïve working girl turned can-can star. This celebration of life, art and the City of Light includes a rare cameo by Edith Piaf."

A few uniforms and lots of attractive ladies dancing the CanCan and in various states of undress and 1890s underwear. You'll remember Edith Piaf's song on the record during Saving Private Ryan.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Jean_Renoir_French_Cancan/70001709?trkid=1660

Grand Illusion (1937)
La grande illusion

"Two French soldiers -- blue-collar Maréchal (Jean Gain) and genteel de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay) -- strive to overcome their differences while plotting their escape from a German prison camp during World War I. Meanwhile, de Boieldieu finds a kindred spirit among his captors in a patrician German officer (Erich von Stroheim). Directed by Jean Renoir, the film is one of the first prison-break movies ever made and is considered a genre classic."

This one is for the WW I buffs with both French and German uniforms.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Grand_Illusion/21929903?trkid=1660
 

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