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It may not be remembered that before World War II, and even for some time after it, Jean Renoir was by no means ranked as the supreme French film director. Marcel Carné, René Clair, Jacques Feyder, and Julien Duvivier were all considered at least his equals, or even his superiors. His work, by comparison with theirs, was felt to lack polish and dramatic shape; both technically and morally, Renoir’s movies seemed rough, often tentative or self-questioning.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Period Piece, Peace Picture: Renoir’s La Grande Illusion Reconsidered. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_2
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