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In French with English subtitles. Also known as
A Life for Us and
People of France!Director
Jean Renoir returns to the "people of the soil" of his previous
Toni in
La Vie est à Nous. Using a cast of nonprofessionals, Renoir cogitates on the dehumanization of the capitalist system. The film opens as a group of schoolchildren come across the fact that France is controlled by 200 wealthy families. As the kids put together a scrapbook detailing the lives of these movers and shakers, Renoir cuts away to the emotional damage wrought both intentionally and unintentionally by the insensitivity of the Elite. Not surprisingly, the film concludes with a rally of the French Communist Party.
La Vie est à Nous was in fact financed by the communists, a fact Renoir attributed to his eagerness during this period to work with anyone who espoused an anti-Nazi viewpoint.
