The Woman on the Beach

Wed. Jan 28, 2015 at 1:30pm EST
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The Woman on the Beach

1947. USA. Directed by Jean Renoir. Screenplay by Renoir, Frank Davis, J. R. Michael Hogan, from a novel by Mitchell Wilson. Music by Hanns Eisler. With Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie. Bennett’s taste in directors was unequalled among Hollywood stars—she worked with everyone from Raoul Walsh to Douglas Sirk—but her most sustained series of major collaborations came in the 1940s, when she worked with Fritz Lang (four films), Max Ophuls (The Reckless Moment), and, on this ambitious, ultimately compromised film, Jean Renoir. A moody, depressive drama about an intersection of lost souls on a metaphorically foggy stretch of Long Island beach, the film was intended by Renoir to be a return to the “poetic realism” that dominated French cinema before the war. But a disastrous preview led to rewrites and reshoots, resulting in a glorious ruin that still contains moments of voluptuous despair and neurotic intensity quite unusual for a Hollywood feature. 35mm. 71 min.

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The Museum of Modern Art Theater 3 4 West 54 Street
New York, NY 10019