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To Renior, this isolation — sought or imposed — was the initial theme of both the film and the novel upon which it was based, Michell Wilson's None So Blind. Using this hint as a means into the elusive heart of the film, one is drawn ever-deeper into the uneasy, endlessly compelling relationship between Peggy (Joan Bennett) and Tod Butler ...
His final Hollywood film was the noirish The Woman on the Beach (1947), which basically ended Renoir’s ties with an American movie industry that tried to fit into a conventional mold a director who thrived on freedom. The film focuses on three damaged human beings who are part of a painful, murderous, romantic triangle. Lieutenant Scott ...
Joan Bennett is "The Woman on the Beach" in this off-center 1947 film also starring Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. Directed by Jean Renoir, it apparently was badly edited by RKO; thus, it sometimes felt to this viewer as if large sections were omitted. Robert Ryan plays Scott, a Coast Guard officer with post-traumatic stress from the war.
…by Jean Renoir’s dark melodrama Woman on the Beach (1947). In 1950 she won acclaim for a comic role as the mother in Father of the Bride. Read More; Ryan. In Robert Ryan …acclaim for his roles in The Woman on the Beach (1947), Crossfire (1947), The Set-Up (1949), and Act of Violence (1949).
1947. U.S. 35mm. 71 minutes. Jean Renoir’s beguiling final Hollywood film was conceived as something that would defy conventional narrative storytelling while also exploring the nature of sexual attraction. Robert Ryan’s PTSD-riddled Scott meets Joan Bennett’s steely-eyed Peggy on a deserted beach one day and they’re immediately drawn ...
Jan 9, 2008 · Woman on the Beach. Directed by Hong Sang-soo. About 10 minutes into "Woman on the Beach," a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire from the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, two men ...
Sep 10, 2012 · A film noir in mood, with terrific performances, wonderful use made of the dead-end settings (the lonely clifftop house, the beach strewn with dead hulks), and darkly elemental overtones to the ...
