My Life and My Films

{{short description|1974 memoir by Jean Renoir}}

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| author = Jean Renoir

| title_orig = Ma vie et mes films

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| country = France

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| genre = memoir

| publisher = Flammarion

| pub_date = 1974

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| pages = 272

| isbn = 9782080607171

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My Life and My Films ({{langx|fr|Ma vie et mes films}}) is a 1974 memoir by the French filmmaker Jean Renoir. Renoir tells anecdotes from his life, covering subjects such as the respect for natural unity he was imprinted with in childhood, his time in World War I, his career in French cinema with many commercial failures, his family life, and his exile during World War II and work in Hollywood.{{cite journal |last=Sesonske |first=Alexander |year=1975 |title=My Life and My Films. By Jean Renoir. New York: Atheneum, 1974. 287 pp. $10.00 |journal=The Georgia Review |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=728–733 |jstor=41399543 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/jean-renoir-5/my-life-and-my-films/ |title=My Life and My Films |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews |date=1 November 1974 |access-date=27 April 2025 }}

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