Compare and contrast the films directed by Jean Renoir that have been classified as belonging to the Poetic Realist tendency and those Renoir films that were influenced or financed by the Popular Front. What were the aspects of style characteristic of Renoir’s filmmaking in the 1930s, and how were these traits employed to complement the aims of both Poetic Realism and Popular Front activism? Were their cases for which Renoir’s methods were considered (by audiences or critics) to be inappropriate for his subject matter? Why or why not?