# My Life and My Films

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1974 memoir by Jean Renoir

My Life and My Films Author Jean Renoir Original title Ma vie et mes films Language French Genre memoir Publisher Flammarion Publication date 1974 Publication place France Published in English 1974 Pages 272 ISBN 9782080607171

***My Life and My Films*** ([French](/source/French_language): *Ma vie et mes films*) is a 1974 memoir by the French filmmaker [Jean Renoir](/source/Jean_Renoir). Renoir tells [anecdotes](/source/Anecdote) from his life, covering subjects such as the respect for natural unity he was imprinted with in childhood, his time in [World War I](/source/World_War_I), his career in French cinema with many commercial failures, his family life, and his exile during [World War II](/source/World_War_II) and work in Hollywood.[1][2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Sesonske, Alexander (1975). "My Life and My Films. By Jean Renoir. New York: Atheneum, 1974. 287 pp. $10.00". *[The Georgia Review](/source/The_Georgia_Review)*. **29** (3): 728–733. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [41399543](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41399543).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["My Life and My Films"](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/jean-renoir-5/my-life-and-my-films/). *[Kirkus Reviews](/source/Kirkus_Reviews)*. 1 November 1974. Retrieved 27 April 2025.

## External links

- [Flammarion](https://editions.flammarion.com/ma-vie-mes-films/9782080607171)

v t e Jean Renoir Bibliography Filmography Films directed The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) Nana (1926) Charleston Parade (1927) Marquitta (1927) The Little Match Girl (1928) Le Bled (1929) On purge bébé (1931) La Chienne (1931) Night at the Crossroads (1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) Chotard and Company (1933) Madame Bovary (1934) Toni (1935) Life Belongs to Us (1936) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) The Lower Depths (1936) La Grande Illusion (1937) La Marseillaise (1938) La Bête Humaine (1938) The Rules of the Game (1939) Swamp Water (1941) This Land Is Mine (1943) The Southerner (1945) The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) "Partie de campagne" (1946) The Woman on the Beach (1947) The River (1951) The Golden Coach (1952) French Cancan (1955) Elena and Her Men (1956) The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959) Picnic on the Grass (1959) The Elusive Corporal (1962) The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) Books written Renoir, My Father (1962) The Notebooks of Captain Georges (1966) My Life and My Films (1974) Related Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir Catherine Hessling (wife) Alain Renoir (son) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (father) Aline Charigot Renoir (mother) Pierre Renoir (brother) Gabrielle Renard Marguerite Renoir

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