Jean Renoir’s tender idyll and Max Ophuls’ dazzling triptych were adapted from short stories by Guy de Maupassant, a writer “second only to Shakespeare in his inspiration of great movies” according to critic Richard Brody.
Directed by Jean Renoir • 1936 • France
Starring Sylvia Bataille, Georges D’Arnoux, Jane Marken
This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grow...
Directed by Max Ophuls • 1952 • France
Starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, Simone Simon
Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his a...