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	La Grand illusion (Grand Illusion)
		La Grande Illusion is a film where no characters are bad guys, only the unseen chessmasters on a power trip who make everyone a pawn and move them over fabricated boundaries are evil.
		La Grande Illusion is remembered as a revolutionary work, a precursor to the 1950s and 60s French New Wave movement that itself was a precursor to the Modernist movement that swept the entire world in the late 60s.
		Although the characters in La Grande Illusion are defined by their race, nationality, religion, and financial standing what the film really shows is that everyone has something in common and can grow together if they choose to.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/illusion.html (2992 words)

	"Grand Illusion" by Pauline Kael
		By then Renoir had fled France, and he thought that La Grande Illusion, having failed in its purpose—to guide men toward a common understanding, having failed even to reach the men he was addressing—would be as ephemeral as so many other films.
		But La Grande Illusion is poetry: it is not limited to a specific era or a specific problem; its larger subject is the nature of man, and the years have not diminished its greatness.
		Although the message of La Grande Illusion is in its hope for international brotherhood, compassion, and peace, it is also an elegy for the death of the old European aristocracy.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/films/grand_illusion/kael.htm (1146 words)

	Jean Renoir
		In Georges de la Fouchardière's novel, on which the story was based, the protagonist is a prostitute.
		LA NUIT DU CARREFOUR (1932) was an adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel.
		Grand Illusion was based on a true story from World War I and illustrated the power of wartime camaraderie between the French and German soldiers.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jrenoir.htm (2227 words)

	La Grande Illusion
		The "grand illusion" itself is never spelled out, and even the film’s reputation as an "anti-war classic" is misleading – it doesn’t have a didactic bone in its body.
		Renoir is at his best near Grand Illusion’s end when Maréchal and Rosenthal figuratively reenter the world by taking refuge in a farmhouse inhabited by a war widow (Dita Parlo) and her young daughter.
		In one moment she catches Gabin staring at her as she’s scrubbing the floor on her knees, and in the simple act of straightening up at the waist she expresses in turn the woman’s initial mortification, a resentful challenge, and finally a frank return of his sexual interest.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/GrandIllusion.htm (1092 words)

	Jean Renoir
		The opening scenes of La Grande Illusion provide a subtle reflection of the old European social order during the First World War, as Captain de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay) studies aerial surveillance maps from the safe distance of his office in order to plot out military strategy.
		La Grande Illusion is a sublimely poignant and lucidly insightful commentary on the social legacy of the Great War in Europe.
		Filmed in 1937 under the looming advent of World War II, La Grande Illusion serves as a haunting elegy for the tragedy of the First World War and a relevant cautionary tale on the immeasurable toll of war.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/renoir.html (1247 words)

	Dual Lens - Grand Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Illusion is full of the ideas that would emerge as the genre’s conventions: tunnel collapses, solitary confinement, rigid roles and the prisoners’ endless ingenuity.
		And thus, while Grand Illusion may share similarities with later war prison films, it is wholly separate from them, having sprung from a mindset distinct from the closed world of genre.
		Set in the officer’s prison camps, Illusion’s characters are all of a high enough class that the effusive glow of humanity that Renoir tries to paint becomes muddled with the supposed halo of nobility that he’s trying to disparage.
	www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewId=61604 (969 words)

	The Magic of the Movies--Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)
		Jean Renoir’s La grande illusion is a wonderful film, filled with characters and events and images that stay with the viewer long after the end of the last reel.
		La grande illusion is acted with grace and skill and a reassuring competence.
		If there is a theme beyond the rich narrative of La grande illusion, it is that the boundaries and divisions between people that are created by outside forces matter little, even in a world at war.
	members.aol.com /aechrist76/gra.html (653 words)

	La Grande Illusion (aka Grand Illusion)
		La Grande Illusion has fought a long battle with its close neighbour La Régle du Jeu (1938) over the course of the twentieth century which remains unresolved.
		It is a humanist cry from the heart for the abandonment of boundaries (political, personal, social) and a warning that everything man made is ultimately an illusion, be it a prison camp, a man in women's clothes performing on stage, the border between countries, or even the idea that war can settle anything.
		La Grande Illusion is a complex and detailed anti-war film which stands alongside any made since.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/lgi.htm (696 words)

	Annual Bibliography
		"La grande illusion ou les pépins de la réalité." Jeu 85 (déc.
		"La dame blanche." Jeu 86 (mars 1998): 169-170.
		"La métamorphose d'un ‘onnagata'." Jeu 86 (mars 1998): 162-164.
	www.actr-artc.ca /news/biblio.htm (2139 words)

	French 389A: French Film
		By the nineteenth century, a distinction had arisen between "la haute bourgeoisie", who had considerable individual wealth and power, and "la petite bourgeoisie", who had much less of both and were important only as a group.
		At the time of the "Grande Guerre" (First World War) the bourgeoisie, and particularly the left wing, were challenging with some success the power of the nobility and the clergy.
		The three principal means were a parliamentary constitution (since the 1870s) which broke the aristocratic monopoly on political power, the introduction of compulsory state primary education (since the 1880s) which was used as an anti-clerical propaganda tool, and the mechanization of war, which came about due to the war itself.
	web.uvic.ca /french/courses/french389a/films-illusion.htm (462 words)

	Organic/Mechanic Permalink » La Grande Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At another level it is an illustration of a paradigm shift: the destruction of the old world aristocracy and birth of the modern social contract.
		Permeating all of this is the Grand Illusion itself; that nationalism and patriotism limit more than they specify.
		This tension is what keeps La Grande Illusion applicable after all of these years.
	www.organicmechanic.org /2006/01/la-grande-illusion (537 words)

	La Grande Illusion (1937) - Channel 4 Film review
		La Grande Illusion is less about the rigours of modern combat than its dehumanizing influence on the participants.
		This is represented by Renoir (who fought in WWI himself) by the friendship the aristocratic camp commandant, Captain Von Rauffenstein (Von Stroheim, in something of a defining role), strikes up with De Beoldieu, which seemingly cuts through their status as enemies.
		The 'grand illusion' itself is that the upper classes are somehow exempt from the barbarity of war.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103936 (200 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jean Renoir - La Bete Humaine, La Grande Illusion, Le Crime De Monsieur Lange [1938]: DVD: David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La Bete Humaine is my favorite Renoir and one which tends to divide many of his critics and admirers.
		La Grande Illusion is one of those films whose reputation as one of the pinnacles of cinematic achievement has always seemed unfathomable to me. If anything, its reputation does the film a great disservice.
		I have only seen La Grande Illusion from this 3 box, but I was disappointed to find that it is not a full print.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jean-Renoir-Humaine-Illusion-Monsieur/dp/B0002GZ9SU (981 words)

	Grand Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Renoir, the grand humanist filmmaker, spoke for all that's best about people at a time when people were in danger of becoming their worst.
		Grand Illusion can be all things to all people.
		La Grande Illusion, even after more than a half a century, is still a phenomenal work of art-- elegant, eloquent and powerfully moving.'
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/grand_illusion (756 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Grand Illusion (xhtml)
		But if ``Grand Illusion'' had been merely a source of later inspiration, it wouldn't be on so many lists of great films.
		Perhaps that was always a sentimental upper-class illusion, the notion that gentlemen on both sides of the lines subscribed to the same code of behavior.
		And the ``grand illusion'' of Renoir's title is the notion that the upper classes somehow stand above war.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991003/REVIEWS08/910030301/1023 (1369 words)

	Grande illusion, La (1937) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Their castles in the air, their noble worldview, their time-honored way--all would crumble, as they very well knew, if the line between the rabble and themselves were allowed to continue to blur.
		"La Grande Illusion" in 1914 was the hope that that old order could be preserved in the face of surging democracy and noveau-riche power.
		Jean Renoir's film presents us with an irony: the martial elites of France and Germany needed the war to vouchsafe their very identities, and yet that conflict would prove their undoing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0028950 (652 words)

	EUFS: La Grande Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La Grande Illusion is Jean Renoir's masterpiece, and is certainly his most famous and most popular film.
		Its strengths lie in an effective and harmonious blend of comical, satirical, dramatical and sentimental scenes, a solid performance delivered by a fantastic cast including Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay and Eric von Stroheim, and in the deeply human issues it focuses on.
		La Grande Illusion is more of a social study than anything else.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/la_grande_illusion.html (374 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion
		At any rate, Grand Illusion struck me as a kind of film version of Jose Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses.
		This is the "Grand Illusion" of the title, the imposed brotherhood of all men that occurs because of the war, but which can't possibly survive it.
		Yet, Boeldieu is obviously conscious of the fact this kind of flattened society is a preview of the world to come, that there will be no place for him and his class after the peace.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.moviedetail/movie_id/28 (1582 words)

	Amazon.com: Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection: DVD: Jean Renoir,Jean Gabin,Dita Parlo,Pierre Fresnay,Erich von ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The transfer is from an original camera negative thought to be lost for decades and it can't be rivalled for image clarity or sound quality (given that this is a 62-year old film).
		Grand Illusion is easier to catch immediatly while Rules let you think endlessly.
		Jean Renoir's masterpiece, 'the grand illusion', is truly a film about humanity - it is a universal theme, something we can all understand and relate to.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780020707?v=glance (2507 words)

	The Films of Jean Renoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Even in the prison camp of La Grande Illusion, we are in a castle, not a traditional prison, and spend much time in Von Rauffenstein's home-like quarters.
		There is Von Rauffenstein's injured flyer in La Grande Illusion, Robert Ryan's tormented Lieutenant in The Woman on the Beach, and the amputee Captain John in The River.
		Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) seems influenced by Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd, 1933), an anti-war film based on a play by Noël Coward.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/renoir.htm (1119 words)

	Amazon.com: Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection: DVD: Jean Renoir,Jean Gabin,Dita Parlo,Pierre Fresnay,Erich von ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And yet, the acting and writing are grounded so much character and detail that you can be very moved by this film without noticing these underlying theme (the audience that laughed at the aforementioned scenes, gave the film a standing ovation at the end).
		Along with "Passion" and "The Third Man", the Criterion version of "Grand Illusion" is one of the finest DVD releases of the year.
		Grand Illusion is sometimes considered as one of the greatest movies ever shot.
	www.amazon.com /Grand-Illusion-Collection-Jean-Renoir/dp/0780020707 (2494 words)

	queenloana » Chapter 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La Filotea arrives - This is Yambo's mother's prayerbook, "The love of God" by Father Riva, which in his child's mind had held out the promise of a plot where Filotea, whoever she was, would "arrive" (p.
		The character has been shot down and can no longer fly or fight; he is in charge of a prison for captured enemy officers.
		He is something of a dandy but he must wear a spectacular neck brace, which supports his chin as well as the back of his head.
	queenloana.wikispaces.com /Chapter+18 (1891 words)

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		Car j’étais officier pendant la guerre, et j’ai gardé un vif souvenir de mes camarades.
		Ils étaient de bons Allemands comme nous étions de bons Français.’ ‘J’ai réalisé La Grande Illusion parce que je suis pacifiste.
		I knew, know, and I’m still convinced, that the turning point of history is the war of 1914-1918.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /staff/fella1/fren237/lagrandeillusion.doc (285 words)

	The big picture
		The French director Jean Renoir made La Grande Illusion in 1937 'because', he said 'I am pacifist'.
		But the first few scenes of La Grande Illusion establish immediately one the film's central points: the class sympathy between the film's French and German officers, and the class divisions between them and their men.
		At times La Grande Illusion is heavy handed about its message, unlike other Renoir films.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr219/picture.htm (735 words)

	Les sentiers conflictuels
		The first release both for the newborn french label, La Grande Illusion, and a young french musician, a student in medicine, who made this record as a concept centred around the "traumatisms" due to the first world war.
		As a comparison, the sound evolves in a style between early Der Blutharsch recording (the first LP), some analog Les Joyaux de la Princesse or Steinklang sounds.
		Once again, the same old description but this time it doesn't sound like another pale copy.
	lagrandeillusion.free.fr (180 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison "La Grande Illusion" Criterion Collection (US) - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Warner Bros (UK) - ...
		De Boeldieu has learned from his German counterpart and comes to realize as he sacrifices himself for two men who, attempt and, eventually succeed at escape.
		There are conversations in the film that are so “in place” in the respective scenes, it is only after the fact that they reflect heavily upon the viewer.
		In ``The Great Escape'' the digging of the tunnel with the usage of air being accessible to the digger and the disposing of the dirt in the courtyard and the singing of ``Marseilles'' enraging the Germans in ``Casablanca''.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare5/grandeillusion.htm (762 words)

	La Grande Illusion Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La Grande Illusion Film Review - Time Out Film
		La Grande Illusion was the only one of his '30s movies to be received with unqualified admiration at the time, lauded as a warmly humane indictment of war, a pacifist statement as nobly moving as All Quiet on the Western Front.
		The Grand Illusion, often cited as an enigmatic title, is surely not that peace can ever be permanent, but that liberty, equality and fraternity is ever likely to become a social reality rather than a token ideal.
	www.timeout.com /film/70467.html (136 words)

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