Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, he works only about half the time. The rest of the time he spends "doing whatever I feel mostly like doing." Prowling the art galleries and fishing are two favorite relaxations: his penthouse apartment on Manhattan's East Side is decorated with paintings and drawings by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Vlaminck, and his twelve-room home in suburban Connecticut-built around a converted, 100-year-old schoolhouse-has a fresh-water pond containing a private stock of trout...
Several of Meadows' newest purchases-including a Cézanne, a Renoir and a Bonnard-are intended for his personal collection in Dallas. There they will help to fill the gaps left on the walls by the suspect paintings, now being examined in Paris. A $150,000 Jackson Pollock will go to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. But the lion's share, ten paintings bought from Wildenstein & Co.-including four Goyas, three Murillos, a Zurbarán, a Juan de Sedilla and a José Leonardo-will go directly to S.M.U., to become part of a collection...
...dance that ends the film is cross-cut with shots of solitary Danglar, not watching his triumphant opening from the nightclub but listening backstage. He doesn't need to watch the girls perform, for they are an expression of his soul; he lives through them. At the same time, Renoir makes it clear that the Cancan girls are individuals, not simply submissive to Danglar's way of life. Though we initially question the individuality of people who happily exist as part of the order of Danglar's universe. Renoir knows that commitment to life on a huge scale...
...Renoir's Jeckyll and Hyde, The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1960) is also about a progression toward joy through the liberation inherent in total self-expression. But unlike the heroes in most Renoir films, Dr.Cordelier(Jean-Louis Barrault) goes about it incorrectly and fails dismally. Cordelier, inhibited and afraid, his sexual neuroses damaging his medical career, effects the classic Stevensonian chemical transformation and becomes hideous Monsieur Opale, a sadistic savage who cannot resist kicking the crutches out from under a cripple, or wrenching the baby from any passing mother. Predictably, Opale's appearances become progressively vicious during the first...
Although Barrault's and Gabin's performances contribute, as does the magnificent photography (note how in French Cancan, Renoir recreates his father's Impressionist pastels), the real greatness of these two films is perhaps undefinable. As the characters move toward one or another stage of self-realization, Renoir's films take on an even larger, universal significance. His spirit, his ability to create characters through use of clear, almost divine, light give his films an aura of undeniable truth, as if he were a Biblical prophet, telling us the word...