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Jean Renoir’s River

21 June, 2009 (10:20) | Essays, Jean Renoir, by David Coursen | By: David Coursen

Jean Renoir’s world-view, famously stated by a character the director played in The Rules of the Game (1939), is that “Everyone has his reasons.” Although Renoir recognized the corollary—that some reasons are better than others—he always understood the complex motivations that drive human actions. And that understanding, in turn, helped him to animate his characters—sympathetic [...]