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La Vie est à Nous (1936) Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker et al.
La Vie est à Nous (1936) Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker et al.
 
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In French with English subtitles. Also known as A Life for Us and People of France!

Director Jean Renoir returns to the "people of the soil" of his previous Toni in La Vie est à Nous. Using a cast of nonprofessionals, Renoir cogitates on the dehumanization of the capitalist system. The film opens as a group of schoolchildren come across the fact that France is controlled by 200 wealthy families. As the kids put together a scrapbook detailing the lives of these movers and shakers, Renoir cuts away to the emotional damage wrought both intentionally and unintentionally by the insensitivity of the Elite. Not surprisingly, the film concludes with a rally of the French Communist Party. La Vie est à Nous was in fact financed by the communists, a fact Renoir attributed to his eagerness during this period to work with anyone who espoused an anti-Nazi viewpoint.

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5 of 5 Wonderful November 20, 2017
Reviewer: M.R. from Australia  
I couldn't find this film anywhere else and am really glad to have finally obtained a copy. Thank you Movie Detective!

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5 of 5 La vie est a nous January 31, 2016
Reviewer: Carol Sandström from Skärholmen, Stockholm Sweden  
An absolutely amazing document of it's time, regardless of your views on the politics presented.
Very facinating.

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4 of 5 Renoir does a political ad March 5, 2014
Reviewer: Jeff Dunford from Portland, OR United States  
Politics is the subject of this film, but it is well done.  Not surprising, since the list of credits is practically a who's who of the French cinema

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