Grande Illusion, La
French Film Guide
Directed by the great Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) is the finest of all anti-war films and a cinematic masterwork. Other films oppose war by showing its horror. Renoir's film holds the horror at arm's length to give us a clearer view of it. A prisoner-of-war drama, with brilliant performances from leading stars of its period, including Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, the film combines popular appeal with a formal brilliance that allows a complex examination of how classes, nations and genders relate to one another. In this comprehensive and readable companion to the film, Martin O'Shaughnessy underlines its sharp intelligence. He…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85771-304-9
- EAN: 9780857713049
- Produktnummer: 22576268
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'506 KB
Über den Autor
The author of this title is the Reader in Film Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is one of the leading international specialists on Renoir and is the author of Jean Renoir (2000) and The New Face of Political Cinema (2007).
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