Posted on 04/30/2025 6:23:57 PM PDT by simpson96
The Southerner opens, after a brief introduction of the main characters with family photos, on fields of cotton that look like the sea. People work in the hot sun, and you feel the heat, you hear the bird sounds and the smell the earth. You are there.
A man collapses. He is the uncle of Zachary Scott's Sam Tucker. Sam and his wife Nona (Betty Field) tend to this man, who is dying. “Grow your own crop,” he counsels before he passes on. It's clear from the way Renoir shoots the landscape that he knows the earth is eternal and that people are just visitors.
Tucker begins to work the neglected plot of land, but numerous difficulties arise, including bad weather and conflicts with jealous neighbors, making it hard for the Tuckers to get ahead.
Jean Renoir's "The Southerner" (1945) [Full Movie]
*ping*
A fantastic film, it shares some things with my mother’s family and it is better than The Grapes of Wrath.
Bkmrk
I actually saw him at an opening of one of his movies in LA, along with the female star Jeanne Moreau. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir 1970. Still remember how excited I was. The floor polisher skit stayed with me for years. Reminded me a lot of a Eugène Ionesco play.
what an amazing movie
i watched it all
the river rescue scene had to be so well planned out
I watched it and enjoyed it.
To me it was like a cinematic version of a Norman Rockwell painting.
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