Article: From within: music in the style of Jean Renoir.(Critical Essay)

A solitary flute breathes over a pastoral scene. A nymph frolics across the stage. A pipe-playing, vine-clothed, middle-aged satyr bounds in pursuit, the silence of his steps belying his portly frame. This is the summer daydream of Monsieur Lestingois, a Parisian bookseller whose extramarital affair with his young maid is here, in these opening moments of Boudu Saved From Drowning (Boudu Sauve des Eaux, Jean Renoir, 1932), envisioned in mythological garb. Lestingois' entrance, stage-left, may seem to 'source' the music we hear: an airy melody, ungrounded by any identifiable tonic note and unblemished by any background noise so as to evoke a certain lightness of being, far ...

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