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0002167050 Dust jacket condition: VG+. Very nice clean copy. Jean Renoir is the little boy with [...] 0002167050 Dust jacket condition: VG+. Very nice clean copy. Jean Renoir is the little boy with golden curls who appears in numerous paintings by his father. He grew up to become one of the great masters of the cinema. This is his autobiography, written with all the charm and delicacy that one would expect from the maker of La Grande Illusion and the author of RENOIR, MY FATHER. Jean Renoir's story begins in late 19th-century France, in that wonderful world which comes alive here in his words as it does in his father's paintings. It is a world dominated by that father and by Gabrielle, the woman who cared for him and 'who influenced me most of all', to whom he owed his first sight of Guignol and the Theatre Montmartre. 'She taught me to see the face behind the masks and the fraud behind the flourishes. ' In other words, to create the movies which are, says Truflaut, 'the most alive films in the history of the cinema', nearly 40 of them, from Nana through La Grande Illusion and La Regie du Jeu to The River. Along the way, Renoir portrays the places where he has lived and worked in Europe, Hollywood and India. He describes his experiences as a soldier in the First World War, then as a pilot, which gave him the insight for what was to become his masterpiece-La Grande Illusion. He writes of the people of his life, the actors, the technicians, the producers, the great and the unknown. He tells us why he became a film maker, how he makes them and what the relationship is between film and life. Most of all, he shows us himself, a man of dazzling simplicity, immense creativity and profound humanity. 287 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!
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