Jean Renoir

Biography of the famous artist by his son, mingling personal anecdotes with the factual.

In this classic tale of adventure duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant while cooperating with his comrades in a daring escape.

Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos. A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic...

A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.

Ingrid Bergman plays a beautiful, impoverished Polish princess in turn-of-the-century Paris. Having sold her last pearl to pay the rent, Princess Elena accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy suitor for reasons of finance rather than love.

Celestine is a sexy and saucy servant whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Determined to elevate her lot in life, Celestine uses her unsubtle charms to beguile the master of the household.

Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.

Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.

"Charleston parade": shows the journey of a man in blackface to a post-Apocalyptic Paris, where he meets a girl who teaches him the Charleston, and they leave together in his spaceship. "The little match girl": the visions seen by a poor match seller as she lights her matches one by one to keep from freezing to death. "La Marseillaise": a dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceeding it in 1789 up to the first bloody...

A Baron, forced by circumstances, gives up his life of luxury and takes up residence in the slums of Paris. The Baron observes the frustrated romance between Wasska Pepel and Natacha, the thwarted dreams of an actor, and the oppressive cruelties of landlord Kostileff.