Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir Box Set :: Product

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Near the end of his long and celebrated career, master filmmaker Jean Renoir indulged his lifelong obsession with life-as-theater and directed The Golden Coach (1953), French Cancan (1955), and Elena and Her Men (1956), three delirious films infatuated with the past, love, and artifice. Awash in jubilant Technicolor, each film interweaves public display and private feelings through the talents of three immortal film icons—Anna Magnani, Jean Gabin, and Ingrid Bergman. The Criterion Collection is proud to present these three majestic films by Jean Renoir for the first time on DVD.

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Country:
FRANCE

Language:
English/American

Color:
Black & White

Plot Summary

Elena and Her Men
Jean Renoir, 1956

Set amidst the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy stars Ingrid Bergman in her most sensual role as a beautiful, but impoverished Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love.

French Cancan
Jean Renoir, 1955

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star. This celebration of life, art and the City of Light—with a cameo by Edith Piaf—is a Technicolor tour de force by a master of modern cinema

The Golden Coach
Jean Renoir, 1953

The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or) is a ravishing eighteenth-century comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach, and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell’arte company. Master director Jean Renoir’s sumptuous tribute to the theatre, presented here in the English version he favored, is set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi and built around vivacious and volatile star Anna Magnani.

Special Features:

New high-definition digital transfers, with restored image and sound
Introductions to The Golden Coach and Elena and Her Men by Jean Renoir
Video introduction to The Golden Coach by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
Video introduction to French Cancan by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Jean Renoir - Hollywood and BeyondPart two of the BBC documentary by David Thompson
Three part interview with Renoir: Jean renoir parle de son art, conducted by French New Wave director Jacques Rivette
Galleries of production stills
New and improved English subtitle translations
Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Andrew Sarris, and Renoir historian Christopher Faulkner
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer editions

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