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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Jean Renoir and produced by Michel Simon.

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Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (2)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 25, 2019 From The Stop Button

I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn?t have to write an opening paragraph about how it?s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin?s Tr... Read full article


Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (1)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 25, 2019 From The Stop Button

I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn?t have to write an opening paragraph about how it?s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin?s Tr... Read full article


Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (3)

on Aug 25, 2019 From The Stop Button

I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn?t have to write an opening paragraph about how it?s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin?s Tr... Read full article


Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir) (4)

on Aug 25, 2019 From The Stop Button

I was really hoping Boudu Saved From Drowning would have a spectacular finish so I wouldn?t have to write an opening paragraph about how it?s a pretty funny misanthropic class comedy until the titular character, played by Michel Simon as a mischievous, mean-spirited pervert variation on Chaplin?s Tr... Read full article


Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932) (1)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 11, 2016 From 4 Star Films

“He spat on Balzac!” Jean Renoir always had a preoccupation with class divides and Boudu showcases that same blatant juxtaposition of class, or more precisely, the lifestyles of the middle class versus a lowly tramp. Except in this specific instance, the tramp (the indelible Michel Simon... Read full article


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Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne: Why have a piano if no one plays it?
Édouard Lestingois: Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.


Édouard Lestingois: The man who spits in Balzac's "Physiology of Marriage" is less than nothing to me.
Priape Boudu: Who is that man?
Édouard Lestingois: Ask my wife.


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The poet on the bench at the beginning is Jacques Becker, assistant director for that movie. He later directed Casque d'Or and other famous movies.
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