La Chienne

7.5

/10

1h 31mCrime Drama Thriller

Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying all of the filmmaker’s visual genius and fully imbued with his profound humanity. Michel Simon cuts a tragic figure as an unhappily married cashier and amateur painter who becomes so smitten with a prostitute that he refuses to see the obvious: that she and her pimp boyfriend are taking advantage of him. Renoir’s elegant compositions and camera movements carry this twisting narrative—a stinging commentary on class and sexual divisions—to an unforgettably ironic conclusion.

Spoken language: fr

Starring Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Magdeleine Bérubet, Roger Gaillard, Jean Gehret, Alexandre Rignault, Lucien Mancini, Marcel Courmes, Max Dalban

Watch "La Chienne" from streaming services Vudu, Google Play, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1931. It's a crime and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.