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Toni

Play trailer Poster for Toni 1935,  1h 30m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 100% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 91% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
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Toni (Charles Blavette) is an Italian immigrant trying to make it in the melting pot of 1920s Provence, France. He moves in with his landlady, Marie (Jenny Helia), and gets a job as a laborer at a quarry. Any stability he has is threatened when he falls for the Spanish Josefa (Celia Montalvan), a young woman who marries the brutish quarry foreman, Albert (Max Dalban), after he rapes her. When Toni tries to save Josefa from her miserable existence, he must face the tragic consequences.

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Renata Adler New York Times Jun 6, 2012
It has a curious, muted, infinitely poetic way of treating human passion. Go to Full Review
Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Jun 6, 2012
Renoir invests it with a sense of character and place that gives it an unusually blunt and sensual impact. Go to Full Review
David Denby The New Yorker Jun 6, 2012
Some of Renoir's staging, faithful to the characters' willfulness, is abrupt, with a casual lyricism caught on the fly. Go to Full Review
David Harris Spectrum Culture Apr 13, 2021
Though Toni doesn't scale the heights of Renoir's best, it is an interesting, and refreshing curio, a full-blooded melodrama of a director getting fresh air and breaking free. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Sep 13, 2020
3/4
Renoir gives the film an indelible sense of humanity, but its story is simply too slight to make it much more than a curious forerunner to his future masterpieces Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Sep 6, 2020
3/4
Often overlooked in Renoir's filmography. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Jean Renoir

Director

Charles Blavette

Antonio Canova

Jenny Helia

Marie

Celia Montalvan

Josefa

Max Dalban

Albert

Édouard Delmont

Fernand

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Synopsis Toni (Charles Blavette) is an Italian immigrant trying to make it in the melting pot of 1920s Provence, France. He moves in with his landlady, Marie (Jenny Helia), and gets a job as a laborer at a quarry. Any stability he has is threatened when he falls for the Spanish Josefa (Celia Montalvan), a young woman who marries the brutish quarry foreman, Albert (Max Dalban), after he rapes her. When Toni tries to save Josefa from her miserable existence, he must face the tragic consequences.
Director
Jean Renoir
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Runtime
1h 30m
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