Renoir Shorts

• Director: Jean Renoir
• Genre: Fantasy
• Run Time: 50 minutes

Plot

This 50-minute video consists of two silent short subjects directed by French maitre Jean Renoir. The first is La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes, aka The Little Match Girl, a 1927 collaboration between Renoir and Jean Tedesco. An ultra-fanciful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story, this film is uncharacteristically avant-garde for Renoir, who usually preferred to merely exaggerate reality, not ignore it completely. The second short, Charleston (Sur un Air de Charleston), is a lively fantasy wherein Renoir's fondness for American jazz is conveyed pictorially. Charleston caused a minor scandal back in 1927 due to the semi-nude gyrations of leading lady Charlotte Hessling. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Catherine Hessling

Credit

Jean Renoir - Director