Books on Cinema

Jean Renoir, son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is considered one of the greatest filmmakers in film history, a master in the use of depth of field (that would inspire Orson Welles, though he would use it in a more egocentric perspective and by establishing different hierarchies of power between his characters, unlike Renoir who used it to concentrate various actions on small individual stages), the search for both a sonic and visual realism, and whose work is particularly marked by the humanism and life that inhabits his characters. The most well-known phrase of his filmic career is spoken by himself, playing the character Octave in La Règle du Jeu (1939), "You see, in this world, there is an awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons." , leaving explicit the sympathy for the different characters with conflicting points of view and their pertinent idiosyncrasies that is present in his films. His cinema is so marked by his personality that An...