The River

This evocation of a young English girl’s coming of age in India was Renoir’s first film in Technicolor. Adapted from Rumer Godden’s autobiographical novel, it deals with many of the director’s favorite themes: love and death, decay and renewal, all seen through the prism of the daily life and changing seasons of the subcontinent. The River is one of Renoir’s most beautiful, lyrical, and profoundly moving films.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive, in association with the British Film Institute and Janus Films
Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation
Presented by The Film Foundation and American Express