Word: tanners
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...copout of Tanner's ending becomes clear. To leave her unhappy, given her shallow personality and Tanner's feeble analysis would have been too heavy-handed given the film as it stands. To make his social criticism, she must be unhappy. To make his "artistic" statement, she must be happy and free. Neither solution is satisfactory...
...imagine her in a week. It will be the same old story. And Tanner himself is irresponsible to close the film the way he does. If he had really thought this film through to its own logical conclusions, he would have shown Rosemonde trapped. Such a conclusion would require detailed characterization and not just a bunch of symbols...
...Tanner's employment of soft close-ups and "picturesque" imagery grates against sensibility. In trying to make social criticism, he forgets that he is working through human beings. If his point is to convince us, his people must be real. But his frames are as hackneyed and as fired as TV images, his visuals in general signify rather than explain what is happening to the people in his film...
...hardly denying his right to make social statements. But like Godard, he forgets or ignores the fact that in art as implicit social criticism is far more effective than explicit didacticism. Thin of Rules of the Game. Unlike Tanner, Jean Renoir understand that the best way to show how society maltreats people was through the struggles of his characters to define themselves while playing their game. In the Renoir film we are dealing with people who are truly caught between expediency and integrity...
Rosemonde, however, has given up--if she ever struggled. Because of Tanner's inability to flesh out character, we have no reason to sympathize, for we do not know her, She rebels, but we are at a loss to understand why She is mysterious at the beginning and doesn't change...