In Reply to: RE: Bresson's "A Man Escaped." A man is jailed in Vichy-era France for posted by patrickU on June 23, 2007 at 01:26:23:
typical and the characters aren't real. The German servant is, for instance, a caricature, a "type."
Renoir's characters usually are stereotypes but that doesn't mean their two-dimensionality detracts from his strength: brilliant and intelligent storytelling wedded to a philopsopher's mind.
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