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aulbayne's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.25
stephersroo's review
5.0
Renoir's account of his childhood, his politics, and his movie-making feeds a hungry nostalgia. I count this as an alone-on-a-deserted-island book--full of stories about real people and stories about stories: from his initiation to the theaters on the Boulevard of Crime, to his work with the "born actor" Jean Gabin, all the way to his unwilling abstinence from film-making in his final years in Hollywood. It's easy to side with Renoir's positions--that the external is a better starting point for art than the internal; that Chaplin's tramp offers perhaps the only tenable way to exist in our insane human world: meek acceptance. It's a dear book.
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