Paris, 1938: The premiere of Jean Renoir’s film noir, "La Bête Humaine" (The Human Beast). The film is based on Emile Zola's classic work, starring Jean Gabin as a passionate train engineer and a good man (but pathological killer in his blackouts) Jacques Lantier. Ernest Lindgren says, in his famous book "The Art of the Film", that the most effective use of tone (music) in the history of film (Lindgren's book was published in 1963) is the sequence when Jacques Lantier kills his lover, a femme fatal, Séverine (Simone Simon). As for Renoir's films, my favourite one is "La Règle du jeu" (The Rules of the Game) from 1939, and I did my best to make a drawing dedicated to Renoir's masterpiece, but unfortunately I couldn't make a drawing to be satisfied with.