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The rules of the game = La règle du jeu / fantaisie dramatique de Jean Renoir ; scénario et dialogues, Jean Renoir ; collaborateur, Koch ; directeur de production, Claude Renoir.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .R4454 2011 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 216.
- Criterion collection ; 216
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Upper class--Drama.
- Upper class.
- France--Social life and customs--20th century--Drama.
- France.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Married people--Drama.
- Married people.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- France.
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
- Comedy films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Films for the hearing impaired
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.)
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- black and white
- Edition:
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Other Title:
- Règle du jeu
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Language Note:
- French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray; Region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- sound
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
- 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.
- Participant:
- Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Paulette Dubost, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Anne Mayen.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
- Full screen (1.33:1).
- 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.
- Contains:
- Container of: Règle du jeu (Motion picture)
- ISBN:
- 9781604655025
- 160465502X
- OCLC:
- 756913164
- Publisher Number:
- 715515088619
- CC2075BD Criterion Collection
- Online:
- Connect to IMDb information for this film
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