Word: rumer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive story of an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India; based on Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (TIME, Sept...
...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive version of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel about an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India (TIME, Sept...
There is hardly a novel in the English language which offers more difficulties to the movie producer than "The River," Rumer Godden's beautiful and deeply sensitive story of a girl's adolescence in India. Adolescence is rocky stuff for the movies anyway--it is all inside while the camera is necessarily outside. And in the case of "The River," the exotic background might well be a distraction...
...River (Oriental-International; United Artists] is a thoroughly unconventional movie and a very good one. It rises out of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (1946) about an English girl growing up beside a holy river in India. Directed by France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir, who wrote the script with Novelist Godden, and produced entirely in India by a Hollywood florist named Kenneth McEldowney, it is a sensitive, Technicolored record of youthful growing pains, enriched by a poetic perspective of life and a wealth of Indian sights & sounds...
Taking the same old pot from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...