Product Details

• Actors: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard, Romain Bouquet
• Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kino International
• VHS Release Date: February 5, 2002
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005UWBL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,087 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A DOUBLE GEM VIDEO, May 11, 2002

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Marc-André Hallé (Baie-Comeau, Québec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Chienne [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This 1931 Renoir movie, made four years after the arrival of the first talking picture, is a very realistic analysis of some aspects of Montmartre way of living, with it's crude dialogue, lightened only by Renoir's naturalistic poetry. Michel Simon gives in this film (and in "L'Atalante") one of his top performances as the constantly humiliated husband who goes painting to support his mistress who exploits him.
"La Chienne" comes with the 1936 short "Une partie de campagne" , a masterpiece of French freshness which reminds us that Jean Renoir is also the son of the impressionist painter Auguste Renoir.
One complaint about this bonus film: dialogue is almost inaudible due to sound parasites.