Fluent in several languages, Samir is an ongoing and valued contributor for planksip. His authorship includes Hell in a Half Way House, several literary reviews and philosophical pensées.
It’s not everyday you watch a movie that causes you to press pause and earnestly state out loud to yourself, “Wow - this might actually be better than The Big Lebowski!” and yet this film did have me doing literally just that, well within the first act.
Jean Renoir - the director of this film - was the son of a famous painter by the name of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who was one of the foremost artists of the Impressionist movement.
