"The Golden Coach"
1952
Directed by Jean Renoir
One of the great works
of postwar French cinema, Jean Renoir's sublime masterpiece--photographed by his brother
Claude--charts the affairs of an 18th-century actress (Anna Magnani) as she travels
through colonial Peru with a commedia dell'arte troupe. She is simultaneously pursued by a
bullfighter (Ricardo Rioli), a soldier (Paul Campbell) and the Viceroy (Duncan Lamont).
With Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli and Ralph Truman.
103 minutes. |