Jean Renoir' movie is ostensibly a movie about captured French troops during the Great War but what we have instead is one of a much more complex and enjoyable nature which transcends its war theme. . No simplistic tale of everyone realising some fuzzy common humanity but one which relfects on the never changing nature of humanity. For what emerges is that the officers have more in common with each other regardless of nationality and likewise the common soldiers. The whole scheme of things is upset as new understandings of old realities emerge. One of the greats of French cinema.
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