Jean Renoir
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 from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951).
Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Known For | Directing |
---|---|
Most Rating | 5.828 |
Birthday | 1894-09-15 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | 장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール, |
1939
The Rules of the Game
7.548/553
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Watch Now
The Rules of the Game
1938
La Bête Humaine
7.055/201
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Sé...
Watch Now
La Bête Humaine
1946
A Day in the Country
7.318/184
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Watch Now
A Day in the Country
1968
Louis Lumière
6.9/9
Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
Watch Now
Louis Lumière
1927
La P’tite Lili
4.9/12
Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie, w...
Watch Now
La P’tite Lili
1927
Charleston Parade
5.8/22
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Watch Now
Charleston Parade
1937
The Spanish Earth
6.735/18
A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces wh...
Watch Now
The Spanish Earth
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
0/0
In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of t...
Watch Now
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1969
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
7/2
A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.
Watch Now
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1930
Little Red Riding Hood
0/0
This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she o...
Watch Now
Little Red Riding Hood
1994
Un tournage à la campagne
6/1
Edited from 4½ hours of unused material left over from the shooting of Jean Renoir's 1936 PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE (A Day in the Country) and donated by the...
Watch Now
Un tournage à la campagne
1930
The Pursuit of Happiness
0/0
Watch Now
The Pursuit of Happiness
1970
Langlois
4.5/2
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Watch Now
Langlois
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
9/2
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...
Watch Now
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1956
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
6/1
Watch Now
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
2012
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim
5/1
Watch Now
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim
1961
Jean Renoir parle de son art
0/0
Three-part interview with French film director Jean Renoir, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.
Watch Now
Jean Renoir parle de son art
1971
The Christian Licorice Store
4.4/4
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
Watch Now
The Christian Licorice Store
2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis
5.7/3
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Fe...
Watch Now
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
10/1
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image o...
Watch Now
Quand Jean devint Renoir
1936
Life Is Ours
6.2/12
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Watch Now
Life Is Ours
1969
D'un Céline l'autre
7/1
Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his doctor, writers ... By questioning them Michel Po...
Watch Now
D'un Céline l'autre
2021
Le Parti du cinéma
7.5/2
Watch Now
Le Parti du cinéma
2021
The Emma Bovary Trial
6.75/4
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused...
Watch Now
The Emma Bovary Trial
2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
7.2/63
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...
Watch Now
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
1931
Mam'zelle Nitouche
5.5/2
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to ch...
Watch Now
Mam'zelle Nitouche
1915
Those of Our Land
6/6
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to...
Watch Now
Those of Our Land
1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
10/1
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Watch Now
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1927
Backbiters
6.6/7
About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women...
Watch Now
Backbiters
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
10/1
The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Watch Now