La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1939): Castle Cinema, 7.30pm
CINÉ-REAL is a non-for-profit film club with the aim of bringing together film makers, actors, writers, directors, producers, photographers, cinephiles etc, to enjoy classic films as film and share their passion for filmmaking.. The films shown are all 16mm prints.
Chicago Reader review:
For many years this 1937 tale of brotherhood and escape, set in a World
War I German prison camp, was considered Jean Renoir's official
masterpiece. It's an excellent film, with Renoir's usual looping line
and deft shifts of tone, though today the balance of critical opinion
has shifted in favor of the greater darkness and filigree of The Rules of the Game.
Francois Truffaut described it as"the least eccentric of all of
Renoir's French movies," and for that reason it has long been the most
popular. But to imagine this same material in the hands of any of the
cinema's more naive, more didactic humanists—a Capra or a Stevens,
say—is to appreciate the measure of Renoir's genius and honesty.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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