Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
(Boudu Saved from Drowning)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Synopsis:
A tramp throws himself into the Seine and is rescued by a bookseller, who takes him into his bourgeois household. However, his eccentric antics make him unlivable.
Review:
Renoir's bold satire on class values, the bookseller mistakenly assuming that Boudu will be content to behave according to middle class values if he has middle class comforts, is also of course an update of Le Tartuffe. Simon's larger than life presence consumes the screen. Remade by Paul Mazursky as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, as a satire on liberal Hollywood.
(Boudu Saved from Drowning)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Synopsis:
A tramp throws himself into the Seine and is rescued by a bookseller, who takes him into his bourgeois household. However, his eccentric antics make him unlivable.
Review:
Renoir's bold satire on class values, the bookseller mistakenly assuming that Boudu will be content to behave according to middle class values if he has middle class comforts, is also of course an update of Le Tartuffe. Simon's larger than life presence consumes the screen. Remade by Paul Mazursky as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, as a satire on liberal Hollywood.
(Boudu Saved from Drowning)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Synopsis:
A tramp throws himself into the Seine and is rescued by a bookseller, who takes him into his bourgeois household. However, his eccentric antics make him unlivable.
Review:
Renoir's bold satire on class values, the bookseller mistakenly assuming that Boudu will be content to behave according to middle class values if he has middle class comforts, is also of course an update of Le Tartuffe. Simon's larger than life presence consumes the screen. Remade by Paul Mazursky as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, as a satire on liberal Hollywood.