Rome: the Palazzo delle Esposizioni celebrates the 40th anniversary of the death of director Jean Renoir with an exhibition

At the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, there will be a film festival entitled Jean Renoir and the Masters of Poetic Realism that will celebrate the celebrated French director and run from February 9 to March 17, 2019. Forty years after his death, the importance of Jean Renoir (Paris, 1894 - Beverly Hills, 1979) as a landmark auteur for much of film history shows no signs of diminishing. His films anticipated movements such as Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave, making him one of the precious links between classic and modern cinema, thanks above all to a vision that magically combines measure and experimentation, irony and disenchantment, levity and political commitment.

But the real strength of Renoir’s cinema remains the profound humanity of his gaze, that ability to put people at the center of everything that instead seems to be increasingly lacking in today’s cinema. For this reason, too, the choice to pay homage to him proved almost necessary, with a selection of his most famous and beloved titles: from the first silent masterpieces to those of the golden age of the 1930s, from the films of his Hollywood exile to the more mature outcomes of his return to France. A number of works by coeval masters of poetic realism such as Carné and Duvivier have also been added to the program in an attempt to best restore the cultural climate of an extraordinary and unrepeatable era.

The films presented in the review will be screened in 35 mm and admission is free while seats last. To learn about the entire programming of the review you can visit the official website of Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

Rome: the Palazzo delle Esposizioni celebrates the 40th anniversary of the death of director Jean Renoir with an exhibition

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