Grand Illusion' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

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  • A.O. Scott looks back at Jean Renoir's World War I film about European unity and the dream of a world beyond simple categories.
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    Critics' Picks - 'Grand Illusion'
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 35

  • @jayiijay
    @jayiijay 13 років тому +52

    Greatest film ever made. Orson Welles said if he could save only one film, this would have been it.

  • @VILA1963
    @VILA1963 3 роки тому +9

    Wonderful film. The last scene shown in this clip...I was as speechless as the characters were...brilliant.

  • @chickencharlie1992
    @chickencharlie1992 2 роки тому +2

    Didn't understand the film as a kid. I didn't understand why there was so much camaraderie between enemies. Didn't understand the differences between The Great War and WW2. I was put off by how light hearted it was in it's portrayal of POW camps, almost irresponsibly so, but as an adult it makes more sense.

  • @OscarLopez-et7qf
    @OscarLopez-et7qf 8 років тому +10

    One of the very few movies that made me cry

  • @ladymanderley
    @ladymanderley 6 років тому +8

    It took me a while to realise that the man playing Ruffenstein was the same man as the one playing the poor guy in the Sunset Boulevard

    • @Bonkatsu12
      @Bonkatsu12 4 роки тому +2

      Erich Von Stroheim.
      He was a director in the 1920’s. His film ‘Greed’ is one of the greatest ever made. Like this one is.

  • @JoshuaGonzalez-sr7xy
    @JoshuaGonzalez-sr7xy 5 років тому +4

    Jean Renoir is like where french cinema goes on the map. He is not to be messed up with. And Grand illusion is just the best of some of his best work.

  • @thomaslanglais4695
    @thomaslanglais4695 7 років тому +9

    Timeless masterpiece.

  • @ensufuerointernoexul
    @ensufuerointernoexul 14 років тому +17

    This is my favorite quote from this movie:
    Boeldieu: The pox used to be our privilege. But we've lost it. Like so many others.
    Everything is popularized. Cancer and gout aren't working-class diseases,
    but they will be, believe me.
    Everything is changing and the common humanity shows. And, in a way, the honor.

    • @ilirllukaci5345
      @ilirllukaci5345 Рік тому

      Sorry to say it, but art died with the aristocracy. That this film is such a masterpiece is sort of recursive.

  • @grandehillusion
    @grandehillusion 12 років тому +6

    capitaine de Boëldieu ,played by one of the greatest actor of all time : Mr PIERRE FRESNAY!!!

  • @Messi-dh9zg
    @Messi-dh9zg Місяць тому

    Masterpiece

  • @withnail-and-i
    @withnail-and-i Рік тому

    This is literally based off my great grandfather's WW1 story. Will have to watch someday, when I'm ready...

  • @reelscreenwriting8940
    @reelscreenwriting8940 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this :)

  • @iosaturnalia980
    @iosaturnalia980 4 роки тому +1

    What a great film

  • @sieglindedeutersbotter1251
    @sieglindedeutersbotter1251 5 років тому +1

    Erich von Stroheim - a German film maker? Nope, he was Austrian - which is kind of easy to pick up when you watch his silent movies.

    • @TheSpiritOfTheTimes
      @TheSpiritOfTheTimes 2 роки тому

      He honestly speaks German in an incredibly weird, almost-Anglophone accent, not even Austrian.

    • @19Edurne
      @19Edurne 9 місяців тому

      @@TheSpiritOfTheTimes
      French too, I can assure you. Nothing German about those "R".

  • @SteveTeo99
    @SteveTeo99 2 роки тому

    Seems like Hogan’s Heroes was loosely based on this film?

    • @koomo801
      @koomo801 2 місяці тому

      Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalig 17 and The Great Escape.

  • @JK-gu3tl
    @JK-gu3tl 2 роки тому

    WWI was such a disaster.

    • @withnail-and-i
      @withnail-and-i Рік тому

      My great grandfather was the inspiration for the story that the movie used, guy killed himself a decade letter at the other end of the world. Not to mention all those who died in the first months of the conflict...

  • @Ax18NY
    @Ax18NY 3 роки тому +1

    Important but overrated film. It has not aged well. It only comes alive when Stroheim is on screen. His scenes with Fresnay are classics and the only memorable moments for me. RULES OF THE GAME is Renoir's masterpiece.

  • @archstanton5973
    @archstanton5973 Рік тому +1

    I was "made" to watch Grand Illusion and I was astounded how a movie "forced on me" so moved me.