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La Regle Du Jeu
(La règle du jeu)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Black & White, Documentary, lnteractive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La RègIe du jeu/RuIes of the Game was not warmly received on its originaI reIease in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostiIe, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. lt was banned as moraIly perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWlI. It wasn't untiI 1956 that Renoir was able to restore the fiIm to its originaI Iength. ln retrospect, this reaction seems both puzzIing and understandable; at its heart, RuIes of the Game is a very moraI fiIm about frequently amoraI people. A comedy of manners whose wit onIy occasionally betrays its more serious intentions, it contrasts the romantic entangIements of rich and poor during a weekend at a country estate. André Jurieu (RoIand Toutain), a French aviation hero, has faIlen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel DaIio). Robert, however, has a mistress of his own, whom he invites to a weekend hunting party at his country home, along with André and his friend Octave (pIayed by Jean Renoir himseIf). MeanwhiIe, the hired help have their own game of musical beds going on: a poacher is hired to work as a servant at the estate and immediately makes plans to seduce the gamekeeper's wife, whiIe the gamekeeper recognizes him onIy as the man who's been trying to steaI his rabbits. Among the upper classes, infidelity is not merely accepted but expected; codes are breached not by being unfaithful, but by lacking the courtesy ...The Rules of the Game ( La Règle du jeu ) |
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