Dismissed by both the public and critics on its first release re-cut by its producers and then banned by the French government as 'demoralising' 'La Regle Du Jeu' now features in the Top Ten greatest film lists of both critics and director's and is one of the most requested world cinema DVD releases by film fans. Renoir's tale of romantic intrigues at a weekend shooting party in a country chateau is now widely recognised as one of the greatest films ever made as a brilliant com
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Jean Renoir's classic (and almost lost) portrayal of the French Bourgeoisie of the 1930's ridicules the class notions of love and honour. A young man Amore, who has just made an historic transatlantic flight, goes, with his friend Octave (director Jean Renoir), to a shooting weekend presided over by the husband of the woman he is in love with. But the manners and 'rules of the game' of the group of people in the party begin to crumble.
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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