The River (Renoir, 1951): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.45pm
This 35mm screening (also being shown on 8th and 13th May) is part of the Big Screen Classics Season at BFI Southbank. 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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