This is a fantastic film. It is filled with patented Renoirisms, from the utter sincerity of the emotions to the exceptional impressionistic composition.
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08/30/06
Elena and Her Men (1956)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:9
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Set in Paris in the 1880s, Renoir's light comedy mixes romance with politics in a film that stars Ingrid Bergman as Elena, an impoverished Polish princess. After the beautiful woman has walked out... [More]
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, Jean Marais, Juliette Greco
Director: Jean Renoir
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Reviews for Elena and Her Men
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Fantasy, yes, but hardly escapist in the astonishing pertinence with which it reduces the hawkish military and political ambitions of the day to derisory farce while demonstrating the infallibility with which love goes on making the world go round.
06/24/06
...there's something to be said for Renoir's universe in which governments can turn on the question of who gets to bed Ingrid Bergman.
04/07/06
The fact that Jean Renoir was its director is the ultimate oddity. How this fiasco could have happened is difficult to explain.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
06/26/05
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10/28/04
Bergman's signature elegance remains the only enduring element of Renoir's light-hearted confection.
10/21/04
the resemblance it bears to Renoir’s great Rules of the Game is more than passing, and I think this detracts
08/24/04
No review available.
12/05/03
Even if ultimately this is not one of Renoir's best efforts, assured direction and a biting script show some of the old magic.
05/24/03
The film is ravishing to look at (with Ingrid Bergman radiant at its center), and its mid-80s 35-millimeter restoration is a sumptuous treat indeed.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat's interesting is the way that Renoir preserves a strong erotic and romantic thread (the love between Bergman and Ferrer) all the way through the movie's farcical elements.
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