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The Rules of the Game (original French title: La règle du jeu) is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier and Renoir.
The Rules of the Game: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac. A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jean Renoir
- 1950-04-08
Feb 29, 2004 · A classic farce with a subversive subtext, Renoir's masterpiece satirizes the French ruling class on the eve of war. See how the film's deep-focus photography, improvised scenes and tragic ending make it a great movie.
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances.
- Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest
Nov 15, 2011 · The Rules of the Game, the most expensive and ambitious French production of 1939, was the first film made under the auspices of that organization. As he wrote the script, Renoir referred to the film as “an exact description of the bourgeoisie of our time.”
Released Jul 8, 1939 1h 50m Comedy Drama. List. André is having an affair with Christine, whose husband Robert is himself hiding a mistress. Christine's married maid is romantically entangled...
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- Comedy, Drama
Jan 7, 2021 · But “The Rules of the Game” is among the most perfectly balanced of films: a movie about discretion that is in every way a model of it. The opening credits call it a “dramatic fantasy ...
