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Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

La Règle du jeu

Jean Renoir


  • Country: France
  • Year: 1939
  • Language: French
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  • Runtime: 106 min.

A classic upstairs-downstairs comedy of manners undercut by a gathering sense of tragedy, Jean Renoir's sympathetic yet scathing farewell to an old world about to be transformed forever by war traces the various amours and intrigues of assorted aristocrats, hangers-on, servants and sundry other ne'er-do-wells over a weekend at a luxurious country chateau.

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screening times

    • Sunday October 10
    • 5:45:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Saturday November 6
    • 12:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

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Jean Renoir's sympathetic yet scathing farewell to an old world about to be transformed forever by war traces the various amours and intrigues of assorted aristocrats, hangers-on, servants and sundry other ne'er-do-wells over a weekend at a luxurious country chateau. Balancing between high spirits and a growing chill of mortality and doom, Renoir gradually reveals the real pain beneath the sophisticated sexual gamesmanship and the real violence behind posturing, farcical threats. Elegantly structured yet internally disruptive, its sinuous long takes tracing an intricate geometry of desire and deception, The Rules of the Game is "the credo of film lovers, the film of films" (François Truffaut).

Thanks to Sarah Finklea and Fumiko Takagi, Janus Films.

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