The River
d. Jean Renoir, 1951
I was really looking forward to watching Renoir's The River (mostly because it was his first film in color), and though I wasn't exactly disappointed by it, it wasn't the great film I'd been hoping for. Needless to say, however, the film is astonishingly beautiful and it makes me miss the glorious days of Technicolor. And if story is not as captivating as I was expecting, and Renoir's compositions have been more breathtaking (see The Rules of the Game), the colors in The River are themselves enough reason to watch it.
