Synopsis
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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The Rules of the Game
Cast
Nora Gregor Paulette Dubost Mila Parély Odette Talazac Claire Gérard Anne Mayen Lise Elina Marcel Dalio Julien Carette Roland Toutain Gaston Modot Jean Renoir Pierre Magnier Eddy Debray Pierre Nay Richard Francœur Léon Larive Nicolas Amato Jacques Beauvais Henri Cartier-Bresson Celestin Tony Corteggiani Géo Forster Camille François Jenny Hélia Maurice Marceau Marcel Melrac André Zwobada Marguerite de Morlaye
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Alternative Titles
游戏的规则, Правилата на играта, Pravilo igre, Pravila igre, 게임의 법칙, 게임의 규칙, La règle du jeu, La regla del juego, Die Spielregel, La regola del gioco, 游戏规则, A Regra do Jogo, Правила игры, Oyunun Kuralı, Spillets regler, ゲームの規則, Правила гри, Spelets regler, Ο Κανόνας του Παιχνιδιού, Pelin säännöt, Játékszabály, Zasada gry, Regula jocului, 遊戲規則, Pravidla hry
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France
Paris
31 Aug 1947
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Italy
Venice Film Festival
21 May 1962
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Australia
Adelaide Film Festival
07 Mar 1975
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UK
National Film Theatre(London)
15 Oct 2006
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Greece
Panorama of European Cinema
21 Oct 2014
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Greece
Panorama of European Cinema
13 Feb 2016
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Greece
Greek Film Archive
08 Dec 2019
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USA
Harvard Film Archive
07 Nov 2021
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Greece
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
25 Jun 2022
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Portugal
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
Theatrical limited
23 Dec 2022
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USA
29 Dec 2022
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USA
Theatrical
09 Jul 1939
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FranceU
27 Jan 1940
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Croatia
29 May 1940
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Turkey
18 Sep 1946
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UKPG
08 Apr 1950
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USANR
12 Oct 1952
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Uruguay
18 Jan 1961
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USA
22 Mar 1963
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Finland
23 Apr 1965
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France
11 Mar 1966
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Denmark
11 Apr 1972
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Portugal
24 Nov 1972
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Germany
13 May 1977
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Finland
20 Apr 1979
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Portugal
17 Feb 1982
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Spain
18 Sep 1982
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Japan
19 Nov 2008
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France
20 Aug 2009
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Greece
16 Apr 2014
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France
25 Jul 2024
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Greece
Physical
20 Jan 2004
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USA
19 May 2008
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Italy
06 Sep 2011
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France
15 Nov 2011
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Canada
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USA
30 Nov 2011
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Sweden
24 Feb 2012
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Greece
25 Nov 2016
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Japan
13 Jun 2017
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France
06 Jan 2021
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France
17 Aug 2022
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France
29 May 2023
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UK
06 Jun 2023
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USA
04 Jun 2024
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Spain
TV
13 Nov 1964
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Sweden
05 Mar 1968
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Germany
27 Jan 1971
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Italy
Releases by Country
Australia
21 May 1962
- Premiere Adelaide Film Festival
Canada
15 Nov 2011
- Physical DVD(CC)
Croatia
27 Jan 1940
- Theatrical
Denmark
11 Mar 1966
- Theatrical
Finland
22 Mar 1963
- Theatrical
13 May 1977
- Theatrical re-release
France
08 Jul 1939
- Premiere Paris
09 Jul 1939
- TheatricalU
23 Apr 1965
- Theatrical restored version
19 Nov 2008
- Theatrical re-release
06 Sep 2011
- Physical Blu-ray
16 Apr 2014
- Theatrical re-release, restored version
13 Jun 2017
- Physical Blu-ray
06 Jan 2021
- Physical Blu-ray
17 Aug 2022
- Physical Blu-ray（4K）
Germany
05 Mar 1968
- TV
24 Nov 1972
- Theatrical
Greece
15 Oct 2006
- Premiere Panorama of European Cinema
20 Aug 2009
- Theatrical Re-Issue
24 Feb 2012
- Physical DVD
21 Oct 2014
- Premiere Panorama of European Cinema
13 Feb 2016
- Premiere Greek Film Archive
07 Nov 2021
- Premiere Thessaloniki International Film Festival
25 Jul 2024
- Theatrical Re-Issue
Italy
31 Aug 1947
- Premiere Venice Film Festival
27 Jan 1971
- TV
19 May 2008
- Physical DVD
Japan
18 Sep 1982
- Theatrical
25 Nov 2016
- Physical Blu-ray
Portugal
11 Apr 1972
- Theatrical
20 Apr 1979
- Theatrical re-release
25 Jun 2022
- Premiere Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
Spain
17 Feb 1982
- Theatrical re-release
04 Jun 2024
- Physical Blu-ray
Sweden
13 Nov 1964
- TV
30 Nov 2011
- Physical DVD
Turkey
29 May 1940
- Theatrical
UK
18 Sep 1946
- TheatricalPG
07 Mar 1975
- Premiere National Film Theatre(London)
29 May 2023
- Physical Blu-ray
USA
08 Apr 1950
- TheatricalNR
18 Jan 1961
- Theatrical restored version
20 Jan 2004
- Physical DVD
15 Nov 2011
- Physical Blu-ray+DVD
08 Dec 2019
- Premiere Harvard Film Archive
23 Dec 2022
- Theatrical limited 4K restoration; New York City, NY
29 Dec 2022
- Theatrical limited 4K restoration; Los Angeles, CA
06 Jun 2023
- Physical Blu-ray（4K）
Uruguay
12 Oct 1952
- Theatrical
Popular reviews
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"I want to disappear down a hole."
"Why's that?"
"So I no longer have to figure out what's right and what's wrong."
Effortless. Runs like clockwork; fluid yet structured, chaotic yet motionless. Characters dash and fight and cheat and kill but they never seem to get anywhere, lost in the labyrinthine maze of the house and confined by the forest surrounding their meaningless passions. Like the singular hunting sequence in the middle of this masterwork, it's elegant until the ramifications are visualized, hilarious until a body falls limp, whimsical until the dust settles and the cleanup begins. By the time shadows are seen strolling in line, an internal vigil cast against the moonlight, 'FIN' overwhelms the frame, ending the apocalyptic countdown. Consistently known as one of the greatest of all films, its magic lies in its absurdity and refinement; an unforgettable mix of melancholy and farce.
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“Men are so naïve”. Jolly souls moving towards an abysm. Good manners hide the most destructive of all war films.
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Film #29 of Project 30
”The awful thing about life is this : Everybody has their reasons.”
Jean Renoir's intricate look at the morally bankrupt French society of 30s is full of delicate details, it is not just a movie about the spiritual and ethical downfall of the French aristocrats or the dirty and disordered nature of the relationship between various social classes, the most amazing thing about The Rules of the Game is that Renoir successfully manages to explain something that many films, essays and books have failed to explain: What paved the way for Adolf Hitler to start a decade long madness which took millions of lives and ruined a whole continent? For Renoir it was the hypocrisy,…
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I don’t care; it wasn’t good. First hour was laborious at best, and just constantly uninteresting. Satire wasn’t rich, deep, or funny enough to engage with, and surfacely it was a dull. Then the party scene happens and I’m brought to life for 30 minutes before it meanders it’s way to a completely ridiculous conclusion, and then I’m reminded I don’t care about any of this. 2 stars for that delightful 30 minutes of cross weaving narratives, absurd chases, decelerations of love, all done in a mad-cap cocaine binge energy. But that’s all. I know it helped birth a genre, and like, I’m sure most people just fondly remember that 30 minutes, but literally everything else was painful to sit…
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not a cell phone in sight. just rich people killing some rabbits and talking shit about each other, living in the moment. wish we could go back.
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85/100
Another evolving-taste flip-flop: I used to prefer Grand Illusion because it's more thematically blunt, now prefer this because it's much more knotty and subtle (albeit still pretty blunt in spots). Plus, it's just riotously entertaining, much more so than I recalled. MORE LIKE EVERYONE HAS THEIR CRAZY SELF-INVOLVED BULLSHIT AMIRITE. (Spoiler: Iamrite.) Blasphemous missing half-star is mostly due to Nora Gregor, who's too bland to serve as a credible object of passion for every man in sight; how I wish Arletty had played the role instead. If you have the Criterion disc, be sure to watch the supplement detailing the differences between the 81-minute post-premiere cut and the 106-minute restoration (arguably the first false "Director's Cut"; it's 12 minutes…
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Corneille! Put an end to this farce!
Which one, your lordship?
Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game is complete chaos, but it is controlled chaos, a mess so saturated with meaning that it will take me several viewings to attempt to fully understand all the nuances in the film.
Nearly every character in the film is vain and self-absorbed, and they all carry a sense of entitlement that allows them to play mercilessly with others' feelings. The few people who aren't part of the spoiled bourgeoisie - the idiotic aviator who's in love with a married aristocrat, the trigger-happy groundskeeper, and Octave with his forced joviality - are nevertheless often unlikable, if only because their sincerity is wasted in…
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This has to be the best movie of all time where they kill a bunch of rabbits for real
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It's difficult for me to imagine The Rules of the Game among the top 10 best movies of all time, although this seems to be the critic's consensus. It indeed has a great ensemble and possesses charming chaotic energies, but at the end of the day, it just feels like a second-tier Lubitsch.
Deemed as controversial during its initial release, The Rules of the Game has aged quite poorly with most of its rebellious spirits lost over time. It's a story about games, primarily love games between sexes, where characters fall into love triangles, or even rectangles, as entertainment. As a comedy, it's rather tame, since Jean Renoir simply refused to provide the audience with any form of direct satisfaction.…
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Loved watching cheaters fighting over other cheaters for the love of these cheaters that were cheating on them with other cheaters that got mad because they were cheating on them but they were cheating too with other cheaters🥳🥳🥳 (until that ending tho:()
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Criterion Collection Spine #216
(Foreign language film)(Quest to Conquer the BFI/AFI Greatest Films of All Time Lists)
An amusing early take on a cinematic soap-opera, which is now honored as a landmark achievement in how films are show
"Corneille! Put an end to this farce! ... Which one, your lordship?"
So I imagine that many of the people that come to watch Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game, do so since it is ranked as one of the top films of all time. While I appreciate what an achievement this film was back in 1939. It is not the kind of film I would consider as one of the greats, and was more of an 'academic watch' for…
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***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***
After having a considerable amount of success with his prewar films La Grande Illusion (1937) and La Bête Humaine (1938), Jean Renoir, a cinema genius that did not receive the recognition he deserved in the 30's and 40's, brings along his second masterpiece and what is widely regarded nowadays as one of the greatest films ever made. Despite that Jean Renoir's take on the French upper-class society resulted, naturally, in outstandingly complete rejection, hatred and public insults, La Règle du Jeu is a film that constitutes the most complex and multifaceted critique towards the bourgeoisie of its time, brilliantly juxtaposed with absurd and profound elements, yet not resorting to the…
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