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La règle du jeu
Title
La règle du jeu / fantaisie dramatique de Jean Renoir ; scénario et dialogues, Jean Renoir ; collaborateur, Koch ; directeur de production, Claude Renoir.
ISBN
9781604655025
160465502X
Edition
Blu-ray special ed. ; standard format.
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
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 règle 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 écrans 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 Parèly.
Booklet features 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.
Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, 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.
Variant and related titles
Title on container: Rules of the game.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2017
Series
Criterion collection ; 216.
Credits
Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière.
Cast
Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Paulette Dubost, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Anne Mayen.
System details note
Blu-ray; mono.; region A; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players, it requires a Blu-ray player.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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