Word: renoirs
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...avoids getting sappy as a Christmas card by making his all-encompassing benevolence bittersweet. The director's old persona as the Hitchcock or Resnais or Welles who set out to terrify or bewilder or impress his audience is replaced by kindly old Father Christmas figures like Fellini and Jean Renoir, who do nothing more than wave their wands over the world and turn evil into good...
...LITTLE THEATER OF JEAN RENOIR. A wise and mellow coda in three parts by one of the old masters of world cinema. Each episode is rendered in a style that evokes a period in Renoir's past work and comments on it with grace...
...Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir, 5:40, 7:30, 9:30, weekend...
...Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir, 5:40, 7:30, 9:30, weekend...
...incisive--it's a bit like that statement about the diminished purity of spirit, maybe, with its yearning for bygone times and its inability to say why convincingly. It leads into a brief look at a sad and very serious song about what happens when love disappears. But Renoir hasn't shown us where love comes from yet--that only happens, some, in the third section. For all the grace and style of The Little Theater, it might be better off if Renoir had insisted more on what he says in My Life and My Films about setting preceding character...