Jean Renoir parle de son art (1961)

While working on The Elusive Corporal (1962), Jean Renoir enters into conversation with Jacques Rivette. They discuss screenwriting, question the influence of Cinéma vérité toward a striving for realism, examine the place of technological changes in art, reflect on the destiny of the still young art form of cinema, compare silent film to talking pictures, consider the relationship between technique and the role of the actor, scrutinize the pitfalls of perfectionism and progress through technology, as well as acknowledge painting and his famous father.