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From 2009: Richard Brody profiles the high-style director during the making of his animated adaptation of “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”| The New Yorker
The director Jean Renoir gives himself a star turn in this panoramic romance—made in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War—that’s both a portrait of the artist and a vision of the times. He plays Octave, a failed musician and social butterfly, whose high-society machinations result in a grand reception for France’s heroic transatlantic pilot (Roland Toutain), who is in love with their hostess, a Viennese émigrée (Nora Gregor). She, in turn, is the wife of a French marquis (Marcel...| The New Yorker
This isn’t Anderson’s most personal film, but it is, alongside “The Life Aquatic,” his most reflexive one.| The New Yorker