Mark Rappaport – I, Dalio (2015)
IMDB:
The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir’s THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir’s GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays a character who is Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he’s in the 1930s, he almost always plays shady characters, informers, blackmailers and gangsters. In other words, he is always “the Jew.” When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, he fled to America and appeared in CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. In America, he was no longer the Jew but The Frenchman. He became, in dozens of films, America’s idea of a typical Frenchman. His film career has these two strands in which he has two different identities. Are you defined by other people and their perceptions of who you are? Are you always a creation of the way people want to see you? Or can you exist outside of the arbitrary boundaries which are placed on you?
—Fandor
I, Dalio (720p).mkv
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 32mn 43s
Size: 1.08 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/B21192364163F2F/I,_Dalio_(720p).mkv
Language(s):English, French
Subtitles:English
Rappaport’s video essays on film history / film analysis have been consistently thoughtful and worthwhile, so that’s all I need to know here to motivate a download.