La Chienne 1931  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Bitch
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Mareze, Georges Flamant, Magdeleine Berubet, Roger Gaillard, Jean Gehret, Alexandre Rignault, Lucien Mancini, Romain Bouquet, Max Dalban, Courme, Pierre Destys, Henri Guisol, Sylvain Itkine, Jane Pierson
Painfully shy Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon) paints pictures as an escape from his miserable home life with his nagging wife, Adele (Magdeleine Berubet). One night, he meets Lulu (Janie Mareze) and becomes her lover, but Lulu is really a manipulative prostitute working for her pimp, Dede (Georges Flamant). Together, Lulu and Dede contrive to sell Maurice's paintings for their own financial benefit. Finally, Maurice lashes out and kills Lulu. Police question him but believe he does not fit the pattern of a murderer. In an intriguing twist, it is Dede who is charged with, and convicted of, Lulu's murder.
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Madame Bovary 1933  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Max Dearly, Daniel Lecourtois, Fernand Fabre, Helena Manson, Robert Le Vigan, Alice Tissot, Pierre Larquey, Monette Dinay, Louis Florencie, Romain Bouquet, Christiane Dor, Georges Cahuzac, Helena Manson
This early film adaptation of Flaubert's classic novel is set in 19th-century France and tells the story of Emma Bovary's (Valentine Tessier) scandalous romantic liaisons. Emma is a country girl who marries Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir) hoping for romance and excitement in her life. But, the marriage proves tiresome to Emma, and she begins an affair with wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger (Fernand Fabre). After he abandons her, Emma finds another lover (Daniel Lecourtois) to fill her life, and despair takes over.
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| 1. La Chienne (1931)
aka: The Bitch
2. Madame Bovary (1933)
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