Jean Renoir

About

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...

Known for

BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries • 1977Grand IllusionMovie • 1937Elena and Her MenMovie • 1956The Rules of the GameMovie • 1939La Bête HumaineMovie • 1938The RiverMovie • 1951Picnic on the GrassMovie • 1959This Land Is MineMovie • 1943The Diary of a ChambermaidMovie • 1946French CancanMovie • 1955The Golden CoachMovie • 1952Experiment in EvilMovie • 1960NanaMovie • 1926The SouthernerMovie • 1945The Woman on the BeachMovie • 1947Night at the CrossroadsMovie • 1932The Lower DepthsMovie • 1936The Elusive CorporalMovie • 1962Swamp WaterMovie • 1941A Day in the CountryMovie • 1946Whirlpool of FateMovie • 1925The Crime of Monsieur LangeMovie • 1936The Spanish EarthMovie • 1937La MarseillaiseMovie • 1938