The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)

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Directed by

Jean Renoir

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Nora Gregor
Christine de la Cheyniest

Paulette Dubost
Lisette, sa camériste

Mila Parély
Geneviève de Marras

Odette Talazac
Madame Charlotte de la Plante

Claire Gérard
Madame de la Bruyère

Lise Elina
Radio-Reporter

Marcel Dalio
Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest

Julien Carette
Marceau, le braconnier

Written by

Jean Renoir

Carl Koch

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10 years, 4 months ago at Jul 17 16:44

Attica! Attica!

This film's about being someone who experiences life with great passion and sensitivity, with wonderful and horrible insight into others, and therefore both a deeper love and a deeper hurt, a sensitivity which will always necessarily leave you on the outside. Renoir knew more about what it took to truly love others than any other film maker, but at the end even Octave has to walk away from the den... read more

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Renoir's look at bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II. An assorted cast of characters - the rich and their poor servants - meet up at a French chateau for various reasons and the result is murder.

Release date: 8 April 1950
UPC: 037429180624

Tags: French (11), France (9), 1930s (9), Drama (7), Comedy (7), Satire (6), 1939 (6), Hunting (5), Mistaken Identity (3), Murder (3), Infidelity (3), Black And White (2), Intrigue (2), Love (2), Theft (2), Party (2), Secret (2), Flight (2), Friend (2)

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