
Variety
An artistically masterful feature, the picture breathes the intimate life of warriors on both sides during the [First] World War.
Full reviewArguably Jean Renoir's greatest masterpiece, an anti-war saga concerning the relationships amongst a group of French officers - captured by the enemy and plotting their escape, during World War I - and a meditation on the collapse of Europe's old world order. In a tribute to its power, La grande illusion was named by Orson Welles as the film he'd take "on the ark" and by Nazi Joseph Goebbels as "Cinematic Public Enemy Number One".
An artistically masterful feature, the picture breathes the intimate life of warriors on both sides during the [First] World War.
Full reviewA compassionate, ambiguous work: an anti-war drama that doesn’t contain a single battlefield scene.
Full reviewFunny, heart-wrenching, nail-biting, caustic and profound, touting the futility of armed combat while turning imprisonment and escape into a microcosm for society's aspirations and contradictions.
Full review[This] anti-war masterpiece created a new genre, the POW movie, and with his 1939 La Règle du jeu constitutes a diptych of unparalleled excellence.
Full reviewA moving and inspiring story with stunning direction, getting performances from Fresnay and von Stonheim in particular that were well overlooked come Oscar time.
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