A Jean Renoir in exile double feature tonight! I didn’t like this nearly as much as The Woman on the Beach (which has already aged up to 4 stars), but it was very sweet. Sometimes it can get oppressively wholesome and I found the characters lacking in personality, but that is compensated for by genius direction from Renoir that recalled A Day in the Country. The man sure knows how to make the outdoors serene and inviting without sacrificing stakes. I don’t even know how he rides that line, but he’s mastered it.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
A Jean Renoir in exile double feature tonight! I didn’t like this nearly as much as The Woman on the Beach (which has already aged up to 4 stars), but it was very sweet. Sometimes it can get oppressively wholesome and I found the characters lacking in personality, but that is compensated for by genius direction from Renoir that recalled A Day in the Country. The man sure knows how to make the outdoors serene and inviting without sacrificing stakes. I don’t even know how he rides that line, but he’s mastered it.
Expected it to be racist (being a 40s Hollywood movie called The Southerner), but it really wasn’t. That was a nice surprise.
