Jean Renoir Retrospective | Hand-Picked by MUBI

Beginning with the first feature he directed himself (Whirlpool of Fate), threading through the 1930s with his magnificent historical films (WW I in Grand Illusion, the French Revolution in La Marseillaise) and the less-known masterpiece The Crime of M. Lange and concluding with two under-appreciated late career pictures, including a wild experiment for television (The Testament of Dr. Cordelier), this survey presents the bountiful range of individuals, loves, crimes, passion, evils, communities, actors and genres that Renoir was magnificently able to express. With a sensibility and a camera open to life’s liveliness and contradictions, Renoir took cinema to its apex.