Capital Celluloid 2016 - Day 272: Thu Sep 29

The River (Renoir, 1951): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm


This 35mm screening is part of the Classic Film Season at the Prince Charles. You can find the full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Jean Renoir's 1951 masterpiece, his first film in color. The story concerns a group of English colonialists living on the banks of the Ganges, but beyond that the film describes how the European mind gradually succumbs to the eternal perspectives of India. Renoir's images flow with the same still motion as his metaphorical river: entering or leaving the frame is a matter of life and death, but in the end it is the same. For Andre Bazin, this was the Rules of the Game of Renoir's postwar period, a film in which “the screen no longer exists; there is nothing but reality."
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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