One of the ten greatest films ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2003)

The Grande Illusion is one of the most poignant elegies to the death of European aristocracy ever put on the screen. Although Renoir intended the film as an anti-war treatise, his graceful portrayal of an era coming to an end surpasses the movie's didactic end.
What I find particularly purplexing is how such medicre movies a s Memento and Schinler's List, among others can possibly be so high up.