Candice Renoir

Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. At a weekend hunting party, amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests and are mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs. The refusal of one of the guests to play by society’s rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Poorly received upon its release in 1939, the film was severely re-edited, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. Only in 1959 was the film fully reconstructed and embraced by audiences and critics who now see the film as a timeless representation of a vanishing way of life.

Jean Renoir’s career almost spans the history years of cinema–from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the master Impressionist, produced a stunning oeuvre of oil paintings, celebrated for their inimitable beauty and expression of feminine sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail.

The Memphis-raised and St. Louis-based Queen of Avant Soul, Ivory hails from an illustrious Memphis family that shaped the city’s secular and sacred sounds.

In questo libro incantevole, frutto di lunghe conversazioni e di un’appassionata immersione nei ricordi di tutta una vita, il regista Jean Renoir è riuscito a raccontare, con lo stile rapido e ironico e insieme con la delicatezza che saranno poi la cifra del cinema di Truffaut, la storia di suo padre, fissandone per sempre, come solo un grande pittore avrebbe saputo fare, i gesti e i pensieri più quotidiani e segreti. Ma chi era veramente Pierre-Auguste Renoir? Quell’uomo semplice, sbrigativo, che nell’aspetto «aveva qualcosa di un vecchio arabo e molto di un contadino francese», che non poteva fare niente che non gli piacesse, che odiava sopra ogni cosa il progresso e aveva per la donna un culto incondizionato, restava per suo figlio un mistero. Un mistero appassionante che queste pagine non cercano di svelare ma solo di commentare: «Potrei scrivere dieci, cento libri sul mistero Renoir e non riuscirei a venirne a capo».