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"You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons” - Octave as Jean Renoir As Renoir’s The Grand Illusion [1937] ends with the uncertainty of WWI, The Rules of the Game [1939] begins with the certainty of WWII. Like settings, the themes of class disintegration, tragic-romance, multilingual situations are very close to the prior one. The long and chaotic hunting scenes in the wood are the sure symbolic predictions of futile wars of the imperials is so prophetic in the film. I have seen the same stands of prophecy in Charlie Chaplin & Sergei Eisenstein films previously. Collage: Juliette Binoche [Left] & Nora Gregor [Right] One thing I have noticed which has given me a longstanding impression on my mind is that Christine’s knowledge and learning on colonial history of America and sculptural and artistic collection of Ch...

  The assembly of multi ethnic & religious people in the tumultuous time of great wars; the difficulties of verbal communications in the midst of various languages; the adversity and hardship in the desertion and escapement attempts in the life as a POW; overall, the unilateral suffering and futile purposes of wars are the concerns I have been researching for the literary and artistic documents and references of the situations in the Mesopotamian campaign [1914-1918]. I have already listed some references but I haven’t thought I will come across one of the finest artistic representations that has been expressed well in Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion [1937] where I have found all of them in a single cinema. I am instantly enchanted by its pacifist and humanistic attitudes. Very few cinemas showed the unconventional friendship between  Boëldieu [French aviator] & Rauffenstein  [German aviator] like Frantz [German soldier] & Adrien [French soldier] in Frantz [2...

                                              Cinema shows us a world that fits our desires                                                                                          -Andre Bazin I have read about Godard but I have not watched Godard's works before. I have been thinking of starting to watch Godard with his Breathless [1960]. But I have not had any plan that I will start with Contempt [1963] at the end. It is my wonderful inclination to start watching the list from Cannes Classics 2023 in exchange for the movies in In Competition and Un Certain Regard as they are not released for a global audience and maybe most of them will not be ava...