Jean Renoir's timely, finger-wagging comedy of manners about the French leisure class and its pastime pursuits, pre-WWII, offers a good deal more than the prologue promise of simple entertainment. It is more shrewdly conceived than normal for Renoir and more splendrously dressed and decorated. The acting, however, conforms to the customary, fey, hippity-hoppity gait, with Renoir himself, in the role of old-faithful Octave, setting the pace. With Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, and Roland Tutain. (1939) — Duncan Shepherd
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