Woman on the Beach is a controversial film noir, an intense psychological drama about the worlds leading artist, recently blinded, who is obsessed with his condition and takes out his frustrations on his beautiful wife. A Coast Guard officer, recuperating from injuries suffered during the war, is drawn into their quiet conflict, and they become locked in an odd symbiotic relationship. This was the last American film by the French screen legend Jean Renoir. Critically panned when first released, the film later developed a cult following by many who consider it an existential masterpiece.

A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fiance Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness — and sets out to prove it. This was the fifth and final American film by the great French writer-director Jean Renoir.

The Woman on the Beach (1947)

El teniente Scott Burnett, del servicio de guardacostas, sufre todava de pesadillas en su estado convaleciente, pero est decidido a casarse con su novia Eve y comenzar una nueva vida. Un da, paseando por la playa, se encuentra con una mujer, Peggy, casada con un famoso pintor, Tod Butler, que qued ciego tras una acalorada discusin con su esposa. Scott y Peggy enseguida se enamoran, pero ella se siente culpable por lo que hizo y no quiere abandonar a su marido. Sin embargo, Scott cree que Tod finge su ceguera para mantener a su esposa a su lado.
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