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Nana @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University
Webster Groves, MO
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Nana @ Robert Classic French Film Festival
Jean Renoir, 1926, 150 min., B&W, silent, DVD projection source
With live accompaniment by the Poor People of Paris

Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris provide live musical accompaniment to Jean Renoirs silent Nana, the famed directors second feature. A condensed but largely faithful adaptation of the classic novel by Emile Zola (the authors daughter, Denise Leblond-Zola, was even hired to write the titles), the film stars Renoirs wife, Catherine Hessling, as the flawed title character, a middling stage actress who becomes the kept woman of a married man, the hopelessly infatuated Count Muffat. Influenced by the extravagant work of Erich von Stroheim (Foolish Wives, Greed)  whom Renoir greatly admired  the film features a pair of grand set-pieces, at a horse race and an open-air ball.

Reviewing a restoration of the film that screened at the 1976 New York Film Festival, Times critic Vincent Canby described Nana as an extraordinary achievement that now seems to fit perfectly into the Renoir oeuvre, though at the time of its release in France it was a financial and critical disaster. For us today, with hindsight illuminated by all the remarkable Renoir films that came after, seeing Nana is like discovering a long-lost diary. Its not difficult to understand why early audiences were confused and turned off by this immensely elaborate screen incarnation of the Zola novel about the Second Empire bit actress who became the most famous courtesan of her day. It moves from realism to expressionism to romanticism, all the while being somewhat comic and cool.

With an introduction and post-film discussion by Lionel Cuillé, the Jane and Bruce Robert professor of French and Francophone studies at Webster University.

Sponsored by Jane M. & Bruce P. Robert Charitable Foundation

Location

Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University (View)
470 E Lockwood Ave.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
United States

Categories

Film > Festivals
Film > Movies

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Cinema St. Louis
On BPT Since: Mar 14, 2011
 
Cliff Froehlich
www.cinemastlouis.org/robe...


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