Renoir's 'war film' ????
In his autobiography, My Life and My Films, Jean Renoir calls this
his "war film," but doesn't elaborate on that statement. What did he mean by
that?
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
I believe Renior's metaphor was "dancing on the volcano".
Folks expending all their efforts on playing frivolous kissy-poo games, even while something very serious -like war- looms. The people who should be "leaders" of the society are acting like head-in-the-sand ostriches -- the inevitable result will be whole society will fall.
Rather than making a deadly earnest film with a heavy "message", make the film as farcical as possible, just to emphasize how out of touch with reality the whole society is.
Thanks for the explanation.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
If there's any accuracy to that statement, then the only separation from reality Renoir exposed was his own.
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