Epinions Recent Reviews for Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion: Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion

Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:28:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidMac - La Grande Illusion is, along with Rules of the Game, one of French director Jean Renoir’s most famous films. This film was made in 1937, and was, along with the other Renoir classic, one of my very few forays into any filmmaking from before 1940. I...

Grand Illusion: We Are Brothers and Sisters

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:52:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author metalluk - Jean Renoir (1894-1979) was one of the greatest French directors of all time. Some say the greatest! After his experience fighting amid the insanity that was World War I, he was ever after dedicated to doing his level best to make it the last...

Grand Illusion: The Grand Illusion: Hitler's Cinematic Public Enemy #1/Lean'N'Mean WO II

Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:39:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - It doesn’t surprise me that Adolf Hitler banned this 1937 anti-war movie by Jean Renoir. It does, however, concern me that some people may not catch or will ignore the very beauty of this magnificent black and white. La Grande Illusion, with...

Grand Illusion: "Out there, children play soldier. In here, soldiers play children."

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:31:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author st_patrick - It would seem only appropriate these days that I should write a review on a war film. Jean Renoir's classic 1937 POW drama is considered to be one of the great anti-war films. I'm not sure that this can really be classified as a war film, let alone an...

Grand Illusion: Renoir Makes a War Film Without War

Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:48:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Grouch - War is gentle hell in Jean Renoir’s grand masterpiece from 1937, La Grande Illusion (or, as we Yanks across the ocean like to call it, Grand Illusion).

The French movie takes place during World War I—which, of course, to...

Grand Illusion: Realistic Illusion

Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:50:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author xiibaro - When Jean Renoir made Grand Illusion, Europe was in the thickest of clouds before a storm called World War II. The film, a pacifistic look at the struggle of the classes in Europe during the first World War, was so politically hard stepping for its time...

Grand Illusion: Let's pretend we're civilized

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:39:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ladydagney1 - World War I devastated Europe for generations. The Versailles Treaty, designed by the Allies to cripple Germany, set the stage for another conflict which could only surpass the devastation of The Great War. France, perhaps more than any other...

Grand Illusion: Banned by the Axis Powers!

Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:18:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Oedipa_Maas - Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion lies no doubt in the ur-history of the very great The Great Escape: the prisoners-of-war of various backgrounds inventively tunneling their way out of a POW camp, right on down to disposing of the dirt by shaking it out...

Grand Illusion: The Grand Illusion (1937)

Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:52:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - "The Grande Illusion" is a French film set during World War I. While the main subject is the plight of French prisoners of war held in Germany, the film also explores themes of class conflict, and the desire to be free and living in one's own...