As discussed in class earlier this week, some contemporary audiences initially find it difficult to appreciate Grand Illusion (1937). But after analyzing Renoir's war film from a stylistic, narrative, and/or historical perspective, they end up retracting that viewpoint, realizing that the film is, as critic Roger Ebert claims, a masterful meditation on the collapse of the old order of European civilization.
This week, please write about a film that you initially found difficult to appreciate but then after considering it in a different, more thoughtful light, you ultimately came to see it, perhaps like Grand Illusion, as an outstanding work or art.
