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...later founded Janus Films, the American distributor for such directors as Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman, and probably the most important popularizer of old and foreign movies in the United States...
...wave films per day, and if there is any problem with the movies it's that they are all too good to be taken in such short order. You get a good does of great Bergman this weekend, with The Seventh Seal tonight and Wild Strawberries on Sunday. Renoir's The Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about the 1914 world conflict. Welles's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificient Ambersons is okay, but doesn't really...
...second vignette, The Electric Waxer, is described by Renoir as "an opera. At least, there are songs, choruses commenting on the action" -but there has never been an opera quite like this. A sort of jaunty and funny morality play about a housewife obsessed with the glories of her floor waxer, it combines the unwieldy stylizations of grand opera with the genteel hysterics of tele vision commercials. The last story, The King of Yvetot, about a man of advancing years who is cuckolded by his young wife, has the level worldliness and sensuality of a late Renoir film like Picnic...
...first is a sort of soundstage fairy tale, deliberately embellished with unreal sets and effects (like an erratic snowfall). The second is done as eccentric, even surreal comedy, the third as a bucolic elegy, full of rich fields and dappled light. The vignettes, however, share a common theme. Renoir calls it "a tribute to a virtue which unfortunately has tended to disappear these days: tolerance...
...film is divided into three stories and a musical interlude, a lilting evocation of the Belle Epoque in a song sung by Jeanne Moreau. The episodes are introduced by Renoir himself, standing next to a miniature theater whose curtain rises and falls in formal punctuation. The Last Christmas Eve, the opening episode, is dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen. The curtain goes up on a wistful tale of two beggars, an old man and his aging inamorata who pass Christmas Eve down by the Seine. It is a fragile story, easy enough to grind into sentimentality, but Renoir makes it true...