The River
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Beauty... Mystery... Delightful Humor...
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature — shot entirely on location in India — is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
| Released | 10 Sep 1951 |
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| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 39 minutes |
| Countries | France, United States of America, India |
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This was Jean Renoir’s first picture after his American period, his first in color, and he used Rumer Godden’s autobiographical novel to create a film that is, really, about life, a film without a real story that is all about the rhythm of existence, the cycles of birth and death and regeneration, and the transitory beauty of the world.
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