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The Rules of the Game (1939) | User Rating
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Original title: Règle du jeu, La
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 20, 2004
Budget FRF 5,500,500
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country France
Production Companies
Nouvelle edition française
Studio Franco London Films, Nouvelle Edition Française
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Other Titles
• The Rules of the Game
• La Règle du jeu (1939)
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Genre: Comedy, Society, World War II, Love Triangle, Experimental, Culture Clash, Love, Farce, Psychodrama, Mistaken Identity
Plot: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on his vast estate. The guest list includes Robert's mistress Genevieve (Mila Parely), from whom he's trying to part, and Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a famed aviator who is in love with Robert's wife, Christine (Nora Gregor). As they begin a dizzy dance of escape and pursuit, their games are observed and echoed by the servants below the stairs. The gamekeeper Schumacher (Gaston Modot) is trying to keep the poacher, Marceau (Julien Carette), from poaching on his pretty wife, Lisette (Paulette Dubost), unaware that his boss also has his eye on her. The passionate Jurieu, the only guest incapable of the appropriate hypocrisy, finds Christine in an embrace with a random lover (Pierre Nay), and the startled woman decides to leave Robert and go away with the aviator. Renoir's subtle deployment of long tracking shots in multiplanar deep focus reveals the relations of both groups and individuals as he dismantles the rituals of hypocrisy that make this society run
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