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The Ways of Love

1950 film by Jean Renoir

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ24905104 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ways of Love is a 1950 anthology film.

The film features three segments, Jean Renoir's "A Day in the Country", Marcel Pagnol's "Jofroi", and Roberto Rossellini's "The Miracle".

L'Amore and The Ways of Love

One segment of The Ways of Love, "The Miracle", was originally featured in a 1948 film, L'Amore.

In 1950, "The Miracle" was removed from L'Amore for international distribution and placed in The Ways of Love.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Ways of Love” as 1950 film by Jean Renoir. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950. The account is most persuasive where Ways, Love and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1950 film by Jean Renoir. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24905104. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1948.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Ways of Love”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Ways of Love primary sources, The Ways of Love archive and Ways research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Ways of Love”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Ways of Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.