Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894–1979) was a French director and screenwriter widely considered one of the supreme humanist filmmakers in the history of cinema. The son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he served in the First World War before turning to film in the 1920s, where over a half-century he moved across silent experiments, sound-era social comedy, late-1930s Popular Front classics, wartime exile in Hollywood, and ambitious colour features made in India and France. His acclaimed films include Boudu Saved from Drowning, A Day in the Country, La Grande Illusion, The Rules of the Game, The Southerner, and The River.