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Jean Renoir


Born
in Montmartre, Paris, France
September 15, 1894

Died
February 12, 1979

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Film


Jean Renoir was a film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Jean was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor; the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer; and the father of Alain Renoir, late professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.

As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, Renoir, My Father (1962).

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Renoir, My Father
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4.06 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 1958 — 50 editions
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My Life and My Films
4.16 avg rating — 198 ratings — 38 editions
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La Regle Du Jeu (Ldp Litter...
3.90 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions
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Grand Illusion
4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions
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Renoir on Renoir: Interview...
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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The Notebooks of Captain Ge...
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1966 — 16 editions
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Letters
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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This Land Is Mine
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Jean Renoir: An Interview
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997
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Escritos sobre Cinema, 1926...
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions
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“The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.”
― Jean Renoir
tags: motivation, reason, reasoning, reasons, understanding
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“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.”
― Jean Renoir
tags: hell, life, reasons
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“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.”
― Jean Renoir
tags: film
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