Three Films by Jean Renoir (Criterion R Free DVD)

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Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

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. 
 
 
 
FILM INFO

Spine #241
FILMS IN THIS SET

 The Golden Coach
The Golden Coach 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 theater, 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.

 French Cancan
French Cancan 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.

 Elena and Her Men
Elena and Her Men 1956
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men (Elena et les hommes) stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.

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 Beyond: Part 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