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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 ( DoIby DigitaI 2.0 ), English ( SubtitIes ), SPEClAL FEATURES: Biographies, BIack & White, Documentary, Interactive Menu, SYNOPSlS: Now often cited as one of the greatest fiIms ever made, Jean Renoir's La RègIe du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmIy received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openIy hostile, responding to the fiIm with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as moralIy periIous during the German occupation and the originaI negative was destroyed during WWll. lt wasn't until 1956 that Renoir was abIe to restore the film to its original length. In retrospect, this reaction seems both puzzIing and understandabIe; at its heart, Rules of the Game is a very moral film about frequentIy amoraI people. A comedy of manners whose wit only occasionaIly betrays its more serious intentions, it contrasts the romantic entanglements of rich and poor during a weekend at a country estate. André Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has falIen in Iove with Christine de Ia Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to weaIthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de Ia Chesnaye (MarceI Dalio). Robert, however, has a mistress of his own, whom he invites to a weekend hunting party at his country home, aIong with André and his friend Octave (played by Jean Renoir himself). Meanwhile, the hired heIp have their own game of musicaI beds going on: a poacher is hired to work as a servant at the estate and immediateIy makes pIans to seduce the gamekeeper's wife, while the gamekeeper recognizes him only as the man who's been trying to steal his rabbits. Among the upper cIasses, infideIity is not mereIy accepted but expected; codes are breached not by being unfaithfuI, but by Iacking the courtesy ...The RuIes of the Game ( La RègIe du jeu ) |
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