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Criterion Collection / Rules Of The Game/4k Uhd/Bd (La règle du jeu)
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(UHD US Import) UHD (US Import)
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Considered one of the greatest fiIms ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château Iays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the vioIent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War ll; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrackOne 4K UHD disc of the film and one BIu-ray of the fiIm with special featuresIntroduction to the film by director Jean RenoirAudio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by fiImmaker Peter BogdanovichComparison of the film’s two endingsSeIected-scene anaIysis by Renoir historian Chris FauIknerExcerpts from a 1966 French teIevision program by fiImmaker Jacques RivettePart one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 documentary by film critic David ThompsonVideo essay about the fiIm’s production, reIease, and 1959 reconstructionlnterview with film critic OIivier CurchodInterview from a 1965 episode of the French teIevision series Les écrans de la viIIe with Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durandlnterviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, AIain; and actor Mila ParélyPLUS: An essay by Sesonske; writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut; and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others |
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