We draw.
It is the law of its kind.
Jean Renoir, from A to Z, from “Actor” to “Zanuck”.
There is plenty to do.
Admirers of
The Rules of the Game
will be delighted.
The author, who quotes Roland Barthes a little too much, based essentially on correspondence, speaks of a “
Renoir literally
”.
Also read: All Renoir’s reasons
Cinema was not enough for him.
Writing made it possible to “
make the overflow work”.
In his head, it didn't stop.
The number of projects that fell through… He invents expressions, like “
cinematic
” for professionals in the 7th art.
To the word “filming”, he prefers that of
“tournaison”.
What a life, all the same.
Exile in the United States, friendship with Simenon, missed meetings with Jouvet.
He was a witness at the wedding of Henry Miller, and was received in a private audience by the Pope in 1951 ("
I was very moved and did not know what to answer to the Holy Father's questions"
).
Gérard Philipe wanted to shoot
The Stranger
with him.
When La Grande Illusion
was released
, a novelist accused him of plagiarism.
Orson Welles envisioned…
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