La Chienne
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 14, 2016
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michel Simon | |
Directed by | Jean Renoir | |
Screenwriting by | Jean Renoir | |
Director of Photography: | Theodor Sparkuhl |
Entertainment Reviews:
[T]he movie introduces a lot of what Renoir would do in the ’30s, where he’d question -- with wit and insight -- whether the twists and turns of life are determined by pure chance or social station.
A.V. Club
Rating: 5/5 --
All of the performances are close to flawless, but it's Renoir's unseen presense one remembtrs most vividly.
New York Times
Jean Renoir and Michel Simon managed to give La Chienne the freshness and emotion needed for it to be a living classic, as great today as it was 46 years ago. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Jean Renoir's first sound feature (1931) and one of his best.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: A- --
The three leads gave superb performances.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Wonderfully moving, with great performances.
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Time Out
Any discussion of the film's actual story can only be a discussion of how life imitates art. This is a bit of a pity, because 'La Chienne' is actually a tragic, appealingly melodramatic tale of deep humanity.
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CraveOnline
Product Description:
Perhaps the most genuinely disturbing of Jean Renoir's films, LA CHIENNE stars Michel Simon as bank cashier Maurice Legrand. A symbol of shabby gentility, he's henpecked by shrewish wife Adele (Magdeleine Berubet), who compares him unfavorably to her former paragon of a husband. After the paragon turns up one night to rob the Legrands, his wife's chagrin seems to help Legrand's self-esteem. Not long thereafter, he confronts a thug who has attacked the stunning Lulu (Janie Mareze), a prostitute, and rescues her. Legrand is too dazzled to be aware of her profession, and the two quickly become involved. He's soon so obsessed with her that he starts to embezzle bank funds to set her up with an apartment. A gifted Sunday painter, he decorates the flat with his work as a tribute to her. Lulu begins to sell the paintings to galleries through her pimp, Andre "Dede" Govain (Georges Flamant). As the paintings begin to bring Legrand success, Dede persuades Lulu to claim authorship. When Legrand learns of the scheme he is angered only by Lulu's romantic relationship with Dede. Tragedy follows for all parties involved. Renoir's masterpiece of realism remains a penetrating study of degradation.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 66,609
- UPC: 715515179010
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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