Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Paulette Dubost, Pierre Magnier, Mila Parely

Director: Jean Renoir

Summary: A drama set in a country house which revolves around 9 characters who represent French middle class society. French dialogue with subtitles.

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 smoothly.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Directors Biography, Documentary On The Making Of The Film
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1939
Release Date:	June 2, 2003
Runtime:	110 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B F I V D 583
Keywords:	Subtitled, Game, Rules, General, Drama, La, Regle, Jeu, Du
Genre:	Drama