It doesn't have the reputation here in the States that it does overseas, but "Le Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)" is often referred to as the greatest film ever made, even besting perennial favorite "Citizen Kane" in some critics' minds. I wouldn't quite line up behind them. But there's no denying the lovely poetry of this 1938 French film by Jean Renoir about Allied prisoners of war and their German captors. Set during the more gentlemanly era of World War I, it arrived at a time in a Europe when everyone surely knew another great cataclysm was upon them.
Le Grande Illusion
Le Grande Illusion
Le Grande Illusion
It doesn't have the reputation here in the States that it does overseas, but "Le Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)" is often referred to as the greatest film ever made, even besting perennial favorite "Citizen Kane" in some critics' minds. I wouldn't quite line up behind them. But there's no denying the lovely poetry of this 1938 French film by Jean Renoir about Allied prisoners of war and their German captors. Set during the more gentlemanly era of World War I, it arrived at a time in a Europe when everyone surely knew another great cataclysm was upon them.