Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. The Rules of the Game (original French title: La règle du jeu) is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier and Renoir. Renoir's portrayal of the wise, mournful Octave ...

  2. The Rules of the Game: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac. A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

    • (32K)
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Jean Renoir
    • 1950-04-08
  3. Considered one of the greatest films 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 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 audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t ...

    • Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest
  4. Feb 29, 2004 · Robert Altman, who once said "I learned the rules of the game from 'The Rules of the Game,'" was not a million miles off from this plot with his "Gosford Park" -- right down to the murder. But there is a subterranean level in Renoir's film that was risky and relevant when it was made and released in 1939. It was clear that Europe was going to war.

  5. Jan 4, 2021 · It would be easy to miss the genius of Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece The Rules of the Game (La Régle du jeu). I know I very nearly did myself. Coming to it straight from the sublime poetic realism of the director's Grand Illusion (1937)—with its great themes, its gentle gravitas, and its quiet, touching charity towards its characters—I was unprepared for this chaotic, scathing farce.

  6. La Règle du jeu (1939) Huge-spirited and sharp-eyed, Jean Renoir’s French-society fresco gathers high classes and low for a weekend of country-house fallout. Made on the cusp of WWII, Jean Renoir’s satire of the upper-middle classes was banned as demoralising by the French government for two decades after its release.

  7. People also ask

  8. By the time shadows are seen strolling in line, an internal vigil cast against the moonlight, 'FIN' overwhelms the frame, ending the apocalyptic countdown. Consistently known as one of the greatest of all films, its magic lies in its absurdity and refinement; an unforgettable mix of melancholy and farce. “Men are so naïve”.