Letterboxd — Your life in film

The African-French soldier shows them his pictures, and they turn him away. They just ignore him, and in that simple moment, Renoir's film transcends from a simple morality tale, rises above its themes and critiques of politics. It almost silently reveals its awareness of the depth of humanity's flaws as even the heroes in this melodramatic war story can't be the paragons of acceptance or fellowship that Renoir clearly believes humans can be. He spells it out a bit later,…