LA CHIENNE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1931
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Jean Renoir's ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying all of the filmmaker's visual genius and fully imbued with his profound humanity. Michel Simon cuts a tragic figure as an unhappily married cashier and amateur painter who becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: that she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him. Renoir's elegant compositions and camera movements carry this twisting narrative — a stinging commentary on class and sexual divisions — to an unforgettably ironic conclusion.;
• Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard, Romain Bouquet, Pierre Desty, Mlle Doryans, Lucien Mancini, Jane Pierson, Christian Argentin, Max Dalban, Jean Gehret, Magdeleine Bérubet, Claude Allain, Ghislaine Autant-Lara, Colette Borelli, Agnès Capri, Marcel Courmes, Henri Guisol, Sylvain Itkine, Olga Nilza, Alexandre Rignault, Viviane Romance, Jean Renoir, Georges de La Fouchardière, André Girard, André Mouézy-Éon, Pierre Braunberger, Roger Richebé, Theodor Sparkuhl, Denise Batcheff, Pál Fejös, Marguerite Renoir
• Director: Jean Renoir
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé, Les films du Jeudi, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie