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Mood:
- HumorousCleverWittyBitingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Couple RelationsFall in LoveInfidelityLove TriangleSocial DifferencesLove and RomanceMind and SoulSociety more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDramaRomanceForeign
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century30sWorld War 2
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Place:
- EuropeFranceParis
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- Critically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpiece
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- Ensemble Cast
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- Semi SeriousRealisticSlow
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La règle du jeu, 1939
French
France
Profile of La règle du jeu
The mood of La règle du jeu is humorous, biting, and bittersweet. The plot centers around social differences, infidelity, and a love triangle. It is a drama, foreign, and comedy movie. Stylistically, La règle du jeu stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing is slow. La règle du jeu is set in Paris. It happens during World War 2 and in the 1930s. The movie is known for being a masterpiece, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed.
Summary of La règle du jeu
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.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 8 April 1950 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
Cast and Crew
as Christine de la Cheyniest
as Lisette, sa camériste
as Geneviève de Marras
as Madame Charlotte de la Plante
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Users Reviews
- 20.September.2010
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- by: felixxx999
- felixxx999 rated this movie
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- 22.March.2009
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- by: donp17
- donp17 rated this movie4/10Disappointing
