The Rules of the Game
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game, by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’ country château lays 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 violent response of the premiere audience in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959.
Director: André Zwoboda, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Renoir
Actors: Anne Mayen, Claire Gérard, Julien Carette, Lise Elina, Marcel Dalio, Mila Parély, Nora Gregor, Odette Talazac, Paulette Dubost, Roland Toutain
Country: France