Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- Original title
- Boudu sauvé des eaux
- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 156 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A wealthy bookseller rescues a scruffy tramp from drowning and tries to reform him with a job and a home. The tramp resists the rules of polite society and upends the household instead.
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What happens
Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French social satire comedy of manners film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay, from the 1919 play by René Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu. Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippie... but a photographic record of an earlier France." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Love and Luck (1932)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.