EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION: JEAN RENOIR AHEAD OF HIS TIMES
EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION: JEAN RENOIR AHEAD OF HIS TIMES

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how Jean Renoir's films sought to initiate a spirit of integration in French and other European societies. Renoir observed that, historically and unfortunately, large sections of the population like women and minorities were deprived of many fundamental rights. Renoir strongly believed in a just and equitable social order. He realized that social justice could only be achieved through a wide and comprehensive integration of all constituent groups forming a social milieu. He thus proposed equal rights for women and the under-privileged common people who formed the majority of the any population. Renoir also appealed for the majority to tolerate and embrace the "foreign migrants" who were usually ostracized in their new environments, in order to foster social diversity. Renoir’s aim was to achieve the greater good of all. A forerunner in espousing such a liberal idea, Renoir believed that France and Europe could lead by example.

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