Jean Renoir

Standard Name: Renoir, Jean

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Rumer Godden
RG preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith (whom she calls...
Reception Rumer Godden
One reviewer wrote, [t]here is not enough meat on this book for the library cat,
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
200
but Una Pope Hennessy and Rose Macaulay told RG that it ought to have won the Hawthornden Prize.
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
201
Textual Production Rumer Godden
RG , back in England to live, published The River, a short novel about adolescence set in India; it later became a film directed by Jean Renoir .
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
195, 197, 207
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Textual Production Rumer Godden
She wrote this book largely on board ship: on the waterways of Bengal and on the voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool in the year before its publication.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987.
243
She had resolved against film versions, but...
Travel Rumer Godden
In mid-June 1949, RG flew to New York and four days later on to Los Angeles. She stayed with Jean Renoir in Beverly Hills until August, to work on the filmscript for The River...

Timeline

July 1975
Contributing to her reputation as an important film critic, Penelope Gilliatt published a filmmaker's profile entitled Jean Renoir : Essays, Conversations, Reviews.