I Dalio (2015)

The great French actor Marcel Dalio who has the lead role in Jean Renoirs THE RULES OF THE GAME also appears in Renoirs 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 hes 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 Americas 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