introduced him to film director Jean Renoir and his colleagues, all of whom were members of the Popular Front or were at least sympathetic to it. The time was propitious: the Popular Front had just won a major election victory - although the sense of optimism it generated would soon dissipate as the new government turned out to be ineffective and down-right reactionary in its cultural policy.
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Explorations of Beauty and Decay
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