Tag: Jean Renoir

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★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Instead Renoir produced a bawdy comedy with French airs and graces, which seems to share much in common with so many American films of the late thirties with their loose morals, gender distortions, and hedonistic flushes of romance. The inspirations may have been Marivaux and Beaumarchais, but in style and temperament The Rules of the Game rubs up equally alongside The Philadelphia Story and the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks.

From roaring fires and spruced-up firs to bloody feet and frostbitten fingertips, and from run-down shacks and corporate tower blocks to leased apartments or homely fixer-uppers, Culturedarm's selection of seven of the best Christmas films spans customs and milieus, epochs and continents. Stretching from Bedford Falls and the Nakatomi Plaza to Budapest and a little match girl who hallucinates...

The Little Match Girl ('La Petite Marchande d'allumettes'), based on the short story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, was the eighth of nine silent films directed by Jean Renoir. Released in June 1928 - still in the early phase of Renoir's career, a decade before his French masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937), The Human Beast (1938), and The Rules of...