La Grande Illusion by Jean Renoir.
This book presents the screenplay associated with Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, written with Charles Spaak. Its First World War setting offers a way to approach the film through the language and structure of drama.
Read it alongside the film, attending to what the written scene leaves for performance and the camera. The comparison opens a discussion of how form changes the way a story communicates relationships and conflict.
Cover shown: French-language Balland paperback (1974), ISBN 9782715800205. The separately labeled English translation is the Lorrimer paperback (1968), translated by Marianne Alexandre and Andrew Sinclair.
