Regrets
Michael Wood, 17 December 1992
The Art of Cinema
by Jean Cocteau, André Bernard and Claude Gauteur, translated by Robin Buss.
Marion Boyars, 224 pp., £19.95, May 1992,0 7145 2947 8 Show More
by Jean Cocteau, André Bernard and Claude Gauteur, translated by Robin Buss.
Marion Boyars, 224 pp., £19.95, May 1992,
Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures
by Célia Bertin, translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner.
Johns Hopkins, 403 pp., £20.50, August 1991,0 8018 4184 4 Show More
by Célia Bertin, translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner.
Johns Hopkins, 403 pp., £20.50, August 1991,
Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise
by Ronald Bergan.
Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £25, October 1992,0 7475 0837 2 Show More
by Ronald Bergan.
Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £25, October 1992,
Malle on Malle
edited by Philip French.
Faber, 236 pp., £14.99, January 1993,0 571 16237 1 Show More
edited by Philip French.
Faber, 236 pp., £14.99, January 1993,
Republic of Images: A History of French Film-Making
by Alan Williams.
Harvard, 458 pp., £39.95, April 1992,0 674 76267 3 Show More
by Alan Williams.
Harvard, 458 pp., £39.95, April 1992,
“... his caste is over, but there is no easy message here. Later viewers have been keen to insist, as Célia Bertin does in her biography, on Renoir’s ‘horizontal’ view of the world, where class means more than nationality. It’s true that Renoir thought this, but again, the situation in the film is more delicate. Von Stroheim pleads with ... ”
