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The filmmaker, living in California in self-imposed exile from France, cuts loose with vicious moods and creative rages that feel like the destruction of an old world and the violent birth of new possibilities.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
The Woman on the Beach
Go ahead and say it...I'm no good!
1947 · 1h 11m · APPROVED
Drama
Directed by
Jean Renoir
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A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
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