Director: Jean Renoir
I dislike watching Great Movies. Let me explain - it's hard to escape the fact that Grand Illusion is considered one of the great films of all time. I literally knew nothing about it other than that fact when I started watching. So about halfway through I'm wondering what the big deal about this movie is - maybe there were a bunch of film techniques invented for this movie, and we know that's something critics really get off on. I liked Citizen Kane a lot, but I didn't think it was the greatest movie of all time.
Then I remembered that Great Movies don't necessarily start well, and don't always have a great middle section - I'm thinking here of something like Ikiru. The Great Movies have great endings, and that's where Grand Illusion shines. Not only is the final third of the movie brilliant, but it puts much of the first two thirds into perspective. So I too won't reveal what it's about. I will only say that the 'Qwikster' summary of the film is terrible and not worth reading either.
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