Boudu is a more leisurely film than we are used to now, not that it is long, or slow, but that the camera isn’t in a rush, the action isn’t overemphatic, shots linger on the screen for an extra split second — we have time to look at them, to take them in.

It's hard to imagine cinema without Boudu Saved From Drowning.

There is an ingenious performance from Michel Simon as the libidinous tramp and many entertaining comic touches.

It is a tribute to the permanence of the cinema and the art of Jean Renoir that [Boudu Saved From Drowning] is today, dollar for dollar, one of the best movie investments in Los Angeles.