Boudu Saved from Drowning

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 23, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1932
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Amid the early-talkie crudeness you can see Renoir discover what it means to visually evoke the unpredictable flow of life with composition, movement, and depth.
Village Voice
May 9, 2007
BOUDU seems an inexhaustible film, a nexus of political, philosophical and spiritual themes that reveals new meanings and fresh pleasures with each viewing.
New York Times
Aug 23, 2005
The most startling thing about Boudu is just how incredibly fresh it remains. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- It's a neat idea, executed to fine comic effect thanks mainly to a larger-than-life performance from the great French character actor, Michel Simon. Full Review
Radio Times
Dec 16, 2010
Rating: 5/5 -- This deliciously subversive 1932 social comedy kicked off Jean Renoir's greatest period. Full Review
Total Film
Dec 15, 2010
A beautifully rhythmed film that makes one nostalgic for the period when it was made.
New Yorker
Aug 30, 2012
Rating: 4/4 -- Renoir keeps it all beautifully, humorously on track. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jan 17, 2019

Product Description:

In an oeuvre permeated with ambivalence toward bourgeois life, director Jean Renoir speculates on the result of the abandonment of those values in BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING. Producer Michel Simon stars as Boudu, a vagabond who attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine, grieving over the loss of his dog. But Eduaord Lestingois (Charles Granval), a humane bookseller, rescues him and takes him into his home, hoping to reform the shaggy bum. Shortly thereafter, anarchy reigns as the household is turned upside down by the antics of this large three-year-old. Spitting in first editions, using silken sheets to polish his shoes, sleeping in the hallway, and similar breaches of etiquette do little to endear Boudu to Lestingois. However, once Boudu has had a bath and shave in order to please the maid, Mrs. Lestingois (Marcelle Hainia) becomes surprisingly responsive to his overtures. The maid (Severine Lerczinska), who is Lestingois's mistress, also seems to feel the tramp's mysterious charm. Lestingois, an exemplary bourgeois, now has more than one reason to envy the man he saved from drowning. Among Renoir's finest films, this sharp-eyed take on the paradox of bourgeois liberalism includes stunning photography of Paris in the 1930s and a legendary comic performance by Michel Simon.

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  • UPC: 037429207925
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