Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe
92 minutes,
France (1959), X
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Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe: This is Renoir's only direct homage to his great painter father, shooting much of the film at Les Collettes, the house of Auguste in the South of France. The rather reactionary and ponderous satire on modern society involves a supercilious biology professor (Meurisse) experimenting with artifical insemination until he gets a beautiful peasant (Rouvel) pregnant by conventional means...
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