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Rules of the game = [La r©Łegle du jeu] / fantaisie dramatique de Jean Renoir ; sc©Øenario et dialogues, Jean Renoir ; collaborateur, Koch ; directeur de production, Claude Renoir.
Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside ch©Đateau, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781604655025
- ISBN: 160465502X
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Edition: Blu-ray special édition ; standard format.
- Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. "Two-DVD special edition features"--Container. "Janus Films." Special features: Introduction by director Jean Renoir; audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; comparison of the film's two endings; selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner; excerpts from "Jean Renoir, le patron : la r©Łegle et l'exception" (1966), a French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette; part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by film critic David Thompson; video essay about the film's production, release, and 1959 reconstruction; interview with film critic Olivier Curchod; interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series "Les ©Øecrans de la ville" in which Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and rerelease of the film; interviews with set designer Max Douy, Renoir's son, Alain, and actress Mila Par©Øely. Booklet features an essay by Sesonske, writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and Fran©ʻcois Truffaut, and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Desormi©Łere. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Marcel Dalio, Nora Gr©Øegor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Par©Øely, Paulette Dubost, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Anne Mayen. |
| Target Audience Note: | Not rated by the MPAA. |
| System Details Note: | Blu-ray; mono. ; region A ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Blu-ray player required to view this disc. |
| Language Note: | In French with optional English subtitles. |
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| Subject: | Upper class > Drama. France > Social life and customs > 20th century > Drama. Man-woman relationships > Drama. Married people > Drama. Adultery > Drama. Foreign films. |
| Genre: | Comedy films. Feature films. Fiction films. Melodramas (Motion pictures) Video recordings. Drama. |
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