Jean Renoir: An Investigation into His Films and Philosophy by Pierre Leprohon (Softcover)

Published by Crown Publishers, 1968
Softcover
256 pages
6.5x5.5 inches

Very Good condition with sun fading spine. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

Jean Renoir is a strange kind of artist. His work is drenched in the same sun and gaiety and joy that his father, Auguste Renoir, painted, but it always tinged with an edge of bitternesss, a sweet-and-sour taste like biting into the skin of an orange from the Côte d'Azur of his chidhood. Perhaps it is this tension that makes the work of Renoir–which Pierre Leprohon, a distinguished French critic, explores from the "toe in the water" of La Fille de l'eau–so eternally fascinating. La Grande Illusion and Le Régle du jeu are just the peaks of the iceberg, and in this illuminating study–supplemented by selections from Renoir's own comments on filmmaking and other things, by excerpts from screenplays, and by a broad spectrum of critical and personal opinion–Mr. Leprohon invites us to explores the full range of one of the most liberated careers in the history of film.