Reviewer:
Robert Edgar from Sunnyvale, CA United States
The film was great to see again. It feels like a European 1970s-era film; a mix of humor and surrealism similar to later Bunuel or Fellini.
One of the three segments is an "Opera" about a housewife who falls in love with her new electric floor waxer. The composition and orchestration is wonderful, with the protagonist singing about the wonders of her floor waxer as she runs her hands over its smooth metal exterior, while sitting on her shiny floor. Then I realized that there is a scene very much like this in another film, this one from 1971... Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. A band member, Motorhead, is in a vacuum cleaner costume, while an operatic female voice sings his charms, with orchestration not that different from that in Renoir's film. Great find.
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Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
April 8, 2015
Reviewer:
Richard Brennan from Woolwich, New South Wales Australia
I had not expected to find this film and the quality is perfectly satisfactory. (I doubt that it ever looked very good given that it was made on 16mm for television)
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Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (1970)