Toni
Drama, Romance
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1935
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In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down for good — like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, romance, or enmity, and Toni becomes entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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Runtime:
84 min
Release date:
22 Feb 1935
Country:
FR
Languages:
Italian, French, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It has a curious, muted, infinitely poetic way of treating human passion.
– Renata Adler,
New York Times,
6 Jun 2012
fresh:
Renoir invests it with a sense of character and place that gives it an unusually blunt and sensual impact.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out,
6 Jun 2012
fresh:
Some of Renoir's staging, faithful to the characters' willfulness, is abrupt, with a casual lyricism caught on the fly.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
6 Jun 2012
fresh:
Even these lapses often serve the positive function of bringing us closer to the people in the film, if not the characters. What one ultimately carries away from Toni, in fact, is a memory of felt presences rather than incarnations
– ,
Chicago Reader,
6 Jun 2012