Jean Renoir - 1962
In many ways, this is a return to old style, '30's Renoir; not that I have found his post-war period formally entirely different, though there are some.
By classic Renoir I mean we are amongst the men, in the POW camp, apart from the castle thing so much like 'La Grande Illusion' in thoughts of class, loyalty, survival. We have the men chatting, in long shots, with maybe not so much movement but otherwise that mis-en-scene of moving flanks and great characterisation.
The world here seems to revolve around luck; luck if one escapes, how one lives. It shows that even in what appears outside so smooth, it's really just people running it. Not that this means brutality doesn't exist. We also have a pretty heroic figure.
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