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The Rules of the Game

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The Rules of the Game
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1hr 50min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1939
Director:
Jean Renoir
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio  ...more
Synopsis: Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as morally perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWII. It wasn't until 1956 that Renoir was able to restore ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Jean Renoir's masterpiece and his last French film before he went to Hollywood, Rules of the Game (1939) is an intricate, tragi-comic indictment of a decadent European culture on the verge of collapse and war. Renoir's innovative "observational" style of long takes, deep focus, and gracefully subtle camera movements relates the characters to their environment and to each other, communicating the complexity ... Full Review
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Nora Gregor
Christine de La Chesnaye
Jean Renoir
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Marcel Dalio
Robert de La Chesnaye
Roland Toutain
Andre Jurieu, André Jurieu
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