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Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French
film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...
, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the
silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
to the end of the 1960s. His films '' La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and '' The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the
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's '' Sight & Sound'' poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement
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in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, feminine sensuality ...
and the uncle of the cinematographer
Claude Renoir Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913Some sources, such as Ginette Vincendeau's ''Encyclopedia of European Cinema'', London: Cassell/BFI, 1995, p.328 indicate 1914 as his year of birth – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the ...
. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an '' auteur''.


Early life and early career

Renoir was born in the
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district of Paris, France. He was the second son of Aline (née Charigot) Renoir and
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, feminine sensuality ...
, the renowned painter. His elder brother was
Pierre Renoir Pierre Renoir (March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first ...
, a French stage and film actor, and his younger brother Claude Renoir (1901–1969) had a brief career in the film industry, mostly assisting on a few of Jean's films. Jean Renoir was also the uncle of
Claude Renoir Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913Some sources, such as Ginette Vincendeau's ''Encyclopedia of European Cinema'', London: Cassell/BFI, 1995, p.328 indicate 1914 as his year of birth – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the ...
(1913–1993), the son of Pierre, a
cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
who worked with Jean Renoir on several of his films. Renoir was largely raised by
Gabrielle Renard Gabrielle Renard (August 1, 1878 – February 26, 1959) was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming their nanny, and subsequently a frequent model for the artist. The bond ...
, his nanny and his mother's cousin, with whom he developed a strong bond. Shortly before his birth, she had come to live with the Renoir family. She introduced the young boy to the
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puppet shows in Montmartre, which influenced his later film career. He wrote in his 1974 memoirs ''My Life and My Films'', "She taught me to see the face behind the mask and the fraud behind the flourishes. She taught me to detest the cliché." Gabrielle was also fascinated by the new early motion pictures, and when Renoir was only a few years old she took him to see his first film. As a child, Renoir moved to the south of France with his family. He and the rest of the Renoir family were the subjects of many of his father's paintings. His father's financial success ensured that the young Renoir was educated at fashionable
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s, from which, as he later wrote, he frequently ran away. At the outbreak of World War I, Renoir was serving in the French cavalry. Later, after receiving a bullet in his leg, he served as a reconnaissance pilot. His leg injury left him with a permanent limp, but allowed him to develop his interest in the cinema, since he recuperated with his leg elevated while watching films, including the works of
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,
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and others. After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tried his hand at making
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s, but he soon set that aside to create films. He was particularly inspired by
Erich von Stroheim Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. H ...
's work. In 1924, Renoir directed ''Une Vie Sans Joie'' or ''Catherine,'' the first of his nine silent films, most of which starred his first wife,
Catherine Hessling Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June 1900 – 28 September 1979) was a French actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profe ...
. She was also his father's last model. At this stage, his films did not produce a return. Renoir gradually sold paintings inherited from his father to finance them.


International success in the 1930s

During the 1930s Renoir enjoyed great success as a filmmaker. In 1931 he directed his first
sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decad ...
s, ''
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'' (''Baby's Laxative'') and ''
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'' (''The Bitch''). The following year he made ''
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'' (''Boudu sauvé des eaux''), a farcical sendup of the pretensions of a middle-class bookseller and his family, who meet with comic, and ultimately disastrous, results when they attempt to reform a vagrant played by Michel Simon. By the middle of the decade, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front. Several of his films, such as ''
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'' (''Le Crime de Monsieur Lange'', 1935), '' Life Belongs to Us'' (1936) and '' La Marseillaise'' (1938), reflect the movement's politics. In 1937, he made '' La Grande Illusion'', one of his better-known films, starring
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and Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood, relating a series of escape attempts by French POWs during World War I, it was enormously successful. It was banned in Germany, and later in Italy, after having won the Best Artistic Ensemble award at the
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. It was the first foreign language film to receive a nomination for the
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. He followed it with '' The Human Beast'' (''La Bête Humaine'') (1938), a film noir and
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based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin. This film also was a cinematic success. In 1939, able to co-finance his own films, Renoir made '' The Rules of the Game'' (''La Règle du Jeu''), a
satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming o ...
on contemporary French society with an ensemble cast. Renoir played the character Octave, who serves to connect characters from different social strata. The film was his greatest commercial failure, met with derision by Parisian audiences at its premiere. He extensively reedited the work, but without success at the time. A few weeks after the outbreak of World War II, the film was banned by the government. Renoir was a known pacifist and supporter of the
French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European ...
, which made him suspect in the tense weeks before the war began. The ban was lifted briefly in 1940, but after the fall of France that June, it was banned again.Durgnant, 191 Subsequently, the original negative of the film was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid. It was not until the 1950s that French film enthusiasts Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand, with Renoir's cooperation, reconstructed a near-complete print of the film. Since that time, ''The Rules of the Game'' has been reappraised and has frequently appeared near the top of critics' polls of the best films ever made. A week after the disastrous premiere of ''The Rules of the Game'' in July 1939, Renoir went to Rome with Karl Koch and Dido Freire, subsequently his second wife, to work on the script for a film version of '' Tosca''.Durgnat, p. 213. At the age of 45, he became a lieutenant in the French Army Film Service. He was sent back to Italy, to teach film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and resume work on '' Tosca''.''My Life and My Films'', pp. 175-176 The
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hoped this cultural exchange would help maintain friendly relations with Italy, which had not yet entered the war. He abandoned the project to return to France and make himself available for military service in August 1939.Durgnat, p. 213


Hollywood years

After Germany invaded France in May 1940, Renoir fled to the United States with Dido Freire. In Hollywood, Renoir had difficulty finding projects that suited him. His first American film, ''
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'' (1941), was a drama starring Dana Andrews and Walter Brennan. He co-produced and directed an anti-
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film set in France, '' This Land Is Mine'' (1943), starring Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton. '' The Southerner'' (1945) is a film about
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that is often regarded as his best American film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for this work. '' Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1946) is an adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel, ''Le Journal d'une femme de chambre'', starring Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith. His '' The Woman on the Beach'' (1947), starring
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and Robert Ryan, was heavily reshot and reedited after it fared poorly among preview audiences in California. Both films were poorly received; they were the last films Renoir made in America. At this time, Renoir became a naturalized citizen of the United States.


Post-Hollywood career

In 1949 Renoir traveled to India to shoot '' The River'' (1951), his first color film. Based on the novel of the same name by
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
, the film is both a meditation on human beings' relationship with nature and a coming of age story of three young girls in colonial India. The film won the International Prize at the
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in 1951. After returning to work in Europe, Renoir made a trilogy of color musical comedies on the subjects of theater, politics and commerce: '' Le Carrosse d'or'' (''The Golden Coach'', 1953) with
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; '' French Cancan'' (1954) with Jean Gabin and María Félix; and ''
Eléna et les hommes ''Elena and Her Men'' is a 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais. The film's original French title was ''Elena et les Hommes'', and in English-speaking countries, the title was ''Paris Does Strange Things ...
'' (''Elena and Her Men'', 1956) with Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais. During the same period Renoir produced Clifford Odets' play '' The Big Knife'' in Paris. He also wrote his own play, '' Orvet'', and produced it in Paris featuring Leslie Caron. Renoir made his next films with techniques adapted from live television. ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'' (''Picnic on the Grass'', 1959), starring Paul Meurisse and
Catherine Rouvel Catherine Rouvel (born Catherine Vitale; 31 August 1939 in Marseille) is an acclaimed French actress. Her career spans from 1959 in television to 2004. She starred in Jean Renoir's ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'', Marcel Carné's '' Les Assassins d ...
, was filmed on the grounds of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's home in
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, and '' Le Testament du docteur Cordelier'' (''The Testament of Doctor Cordelier'', also 1959), starring
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, was made in the streets of Paris and its suburbs. Renoir's penultimate film, '' Le Caporal épinglé'' (''The Elusive Corporal'', 1962), with Jean-Pierre Cassel and
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, is set among French POWs during their internment in labor camps by the Nazis during World War II. The film explores the twin human needs for freedom, on the one hand, and emotional and economic security, on the other. Renoir's loving memoir of his father, '' Renoir, My Father'' (1962) describes the profound influence his father had on him and his work. As funds for his film projects were becoming harder to obtain, Renoir continued to write screenplays for income. He published a novel, '' The Notebooks of Captain Georges'', in 1966. ''Captain Georges'' is the nostalgic account of a wealthy young man's sentimental education and love for a
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girl, a theme also explored earlier in his films '' Diary of a Chambermaid'' and ''
Picnic on the Grass ''Picnic on the Grass'' (french: Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe) is a 1959 French comedy film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring Paul Meurisse, Fernand Sardou and Catherine Rouvel. It is known in the United Kingdom by its original title or ...
''.


Last years

Renoir's last film is '' Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir'' (''The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir''), released in 1970. The film is a series of three short films made in a variety of styles. It is, in many ways, one of his most challenging, avant-garde and unconventional works. Unable to obtain financing for his films and suffering declining health, Renoir spent his last years receiving friends at his home in Beverly Hills, and writing novels and his memoirs. In 1973 Renoir was preparing a production of his stage play, '' Carola,'' with Leslie Caron and
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when he fell ill and was unable to direct. The producer Norman Lloyd, a friend and actor in ''The Southerner'', took over the direction of the play. It was broadcast in the series program ''Hollywood Television Theater'' on WNET, Channel 13, New York on February 3, 1973.Faulkner, p. 40 Renoir's memoir, '' My Life and My Films'', was published in 1974. He wrote of the influence exercised by
Gabrielle Renard Gabrielle Renard (August 1, 1878 – February 26, 1959) was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming their nanny, and subsequently a frequent model for the artist. The bond ...
, his nanny and his mother's cousin, with whom he developed a mutual lifelong bond. He concluded his memoirs with the words he had often spoken as a child, "Wait for me, Gabrielle." In 1975 Renoir received a lifetime
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for his contribution to the motion picture industry. That same year a retrospective of his work was shown at the National Film Theatre in London. Also in 1975, the government of France elevated him to the rank of commander in the
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.''An Interview: Jean Renoir'', p. 18 Jean Renoir died in
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, on February 12, 1979, of a
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. His body was returned to France and buried beside his family in the cemetery at
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, Aube, France.


Legacy

On his death, fellow director and friend
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wrote an article for the ''Los Angeles Times'', titled "Jean Renoir: The Greatest of All Directors". Renoir's films have also influenced many other directors, including Satyajit Ray,
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, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Peter Bogdanovich,
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, Robert Altman,
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and
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. Jean Renoir has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6212 Hollywood Blvd. Several of his ceramics were collected by Albert Barnes, who was a major patron and collector of Renoir's father. These can be found on display beneath Pierre-Auguste Renoir's paintings at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Renoir's son Alain Renoir (1921-2008) became a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a scholar of medieval English literature.


Awards

* Chevalier de Légion d'honneur, 1936Faulkner, p. 16. * Selznick Golden Laurel Award for lifetime work, Brazilian Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, 1958 * Prix Charles Blanc, Académie française, for '' Renoir, My Father'', biography of father, 1963 * Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1963Faulkner, page 37. * Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1964 * Osella d'Oro as a master of the cinema, Venice Festival, 1968 * Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London, 1971 *
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for Career Accomplishment, 1974 *Special Award,
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, 1975"Film Critics Honor Bergman's ''Scenes From a Marriage''"
. ''
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''. January 10, 1975.
* Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, 1975 *
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, 2013


Filmography


Films


Other work

* 1936: ''La vie est à nous'' ('' Life Belongs to Us'', as leader of collective of directors, also acted) * 1940: ''L'or du Cristobal'' (''
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'', dialogue)


Bibliography


Renoir's writings

*1955: ''Orvet'', Paris: Gallimard, play. *1960: ''Carola'', play. Reworked as a screenplay and published in "L'Avant-Scène du Théâtre" no. 597, November 1, 1976. *1962: ''Renoir'', Paris: Hachette ('' Renoir, My Father''), biography. *1966: ''Les Cahiers du Capitaine Georges'', Paris: Gallimard ('' The Notebooks of Captain Georges''), novel. *1974: ''Ma Vie et mes Films'', Paris: Flammarion ('' My Life and My Films''), autobiography. *1974: ''Écrits 1926-1971'' (Claude Gauteur, ed.), Paris: Pierre Belfond, writings. *1978: ''Le Coeur à l'aise'', Paris: Flammarion, novel. *1978 ''Julienne et son amour; suivi d'En avant Rosalie!'', Paris: Henri Veyrier, screenplays. *1979: ''Le crime de l'Anglais'', Paris: Flammarion, novel. *1980: ''Geneviève'', Paris: Flammarion, novel.


Writings featuring Renoir

*1979: ''Jean Renoir: Entretiens et propos'' (Jean Narboni, ed.), Paris: Éditions de l'étoile/Cahiers du Cinéma, interviews and remarks. *1981: ''Œuvres de cinéma inédités'' (Claude Gauteur, ed.), Paris: Gallimard, synopses and treatments. *1984: ''Lettres d'Amérique'' (Dido Renoir & Alexander Sesonske, eds.), Paris: Presses de la Renaissance , correspondence. *1989: ''Renoir on Renoir: Interviews, Essays, and Remarks'' (Carol Volk, tr.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *1994: ''Jean Renoir: Letters'' (David Thompson and Lorraine LoBianco, eds.), London: Faber & Faber, correspondence. *2005: ''Jean Renoir: Interviews'' (Bert Cardullo, ed.), Jackson, MS: Mississippi University Press, interviews.


References


External links

*
Jean Renoir: A Bibliography of Materials in the University of California at Berkeley Library.

Interview conducted in 1960 with Columbia University's Oral History Research Office.

Je m'appelle Jean Renoir. Site at the University of Nancy, France. (In French)
* Faulkner, Christopher.
An Archive of the (Political) Unconscious
" ''Canadian Journal of Communication'' nline 26 1 Jan 2001 — analysis of Renoir's FBI files. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Renoir, Jean 1894 births 1979 deaths Academy Honorary Award recipients Directors of Golden Lion winners Male actors from Paris Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia faculty French emigrants to the United States French male film actors French film directors 20th-century French male actors People of Montmartre Jean