Overview
In 1939 Renoir, a director associated with the left wing Popular Front, turned his gaze away from working people to the haute bourgeoisie, setting his action during a shooting weekend at a country house. Itβs an upstairs-downstairs world where servants and masters become enmeshed in a tangle of desire, a jumble of motivations in which, in the filmβs famous phrase, βEveryone has their reasonsβ.
Ranked 13th in the 2022 Sight and Sound Great Films of All Time poll
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