Renoir made The Golden Coach in three versions-- English, French and Italian; ours is the English version. In this story, set in Peru in the 18th century, Renoir takes as his subject the contrast between theater and life, focusing on a commedia dell'arte troupe and their temperamental star, Camilla--the luminous Anna Magnani at her comic best. Camilla is courted by three suitors, an actor, a bullfighter and a viceroy, each of whom loves her for something different, and something different than she loves in herself. In the end, she renounces all three for her true love. This sublime comedy of manners is at once a tribute to the commedia dell'arte and to Magnani, who soars above the other actors and is only matched in the film by Renoir's own intelligence and expansive humanity. As in other of Renoir's international productions, the dubbing of minor characters is sometimes inept and the original English of the stars at times awkward; but these are surface blemishes on a many-leveled masterpiece.