Films in Review

Saw Jacques Becker’s #CasquedOr. Milieu! Demimonde! Passepartout! Characters start out looking like Renoir’s revelers (http://bit.ly/1wf3vk0 …

… or http://bit.ly/1DWEVMR), & then suddenly, they all turn into Mackie Messer. Whiplash! And yet all the while …

… elegance & even affection remain, & prevail. Renoirian after all, à la the great painter’s equally great filmmaking son. Masterful stuff!