pretty good

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 2004)

I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but i liked it better than the rules of the game. I had heard that Jean Renoir at first had a downbeat ending but wasn't going to use it and while he was shooting, he didn't know how it was going to end. It shows because the end really does drag on when it should of been over a lot sooner. Erich Von Stroheim wanted to do this movie but at first their wasn't a character that was big enough for him to play so he worked with Renoir on the script to change two smaller characters into one bigger character. Some of the best scenes are between Erich Von Stroheim and Jean Gabin and Von Stroheim is excellent in this movie. I've only seen one other Renoir film and that was The Woman on the Beach.