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LAST SHOWN 08/7/2025
Fri Aug 01 - Thu Aug 07, 2025

The Rules of the Game

Part of "Punch Up: Uppercuts to the Upper Crust"
YEAR
1939
ACCESSIBILITY
HI
FORMAT
DCP
RUNTIME
1h 46m
DIRECTOR
Jean Renoir
CAST
Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier, Jean Renoir

SYNOPSIS

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), 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. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.

LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles

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