: Grand Illusion
Director: Jean Renoir
I’m never sure how to judge classics: they usually disappoint me because my expectations are too high. This French film fell into that category. It’s a good movie, and I’m sure at the time of its release it was a great one, but I find it difficult to judge with my modern perspective. The story is similar to The Great Escape, which I recently watched, except this film is set in World War I, not II. Some things — like the nonchalance of the captured officers and their German captors — struck me as bizarre, but then I know little about WWI and the “rules” of warfare. To me this was familiar stuff, well done, but nothing to write home about.
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