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The Rules of the Game
Running Time: 110 min.
Produced By: / Franco London Films / Nouvelle Edition Française
Release By: Contemporary N. E. F.

Summary:
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... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Nora Gregor (Christine de La Chesnaye)
Jean Renoir (Octave)
Marcel Dalio (Robert de la Chesnaye)
Roland Toutain (André Jurieu)
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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" styl ... Continue >>