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...magic spells buttress the film. Egerman is very much like Bottom; he plays an ass throughout the movie, but at the end, after Anne has run off with Henrik, he is made human again. The film also contains echoes of Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro and allusions to Jean Renior's classic 1939 film, "The Rules of the Game...
...Crime of Monsieur Lange. Other Renoir films draw the devoted back for different reasons--The Rules of the Game for its seering social satire, Grand Illusion for its flawless humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into...
...number of major works of the past century form the core of the exhibition. Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Gaugin, Renior, Sisley, and Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec are represented proportionate to their value on what must regrettably be called the art-historical market. Two of Monet's studies of Rouen cathedral are here, as is a small study by Manet after Valazquez, anticipating several later works. A self portrait by Van Gogh captures both the texture of the flesh and the introspection of the personality in precise but broad brush strokes moving inward towards the center of the composition. Van Gogh...
Eight performances of "La Marseillaise," directed by Jean Renior, will be presented today and tomorrow by the French Talking Films Committee at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...