An introduction to Jean Renoir 's greatest masterpiece by Gavin Millar, including footage of Jean Renoir revisiting the chateau featured in the film with his leading player Marcel Dalio.
Director CHARLES chabot Producer GAVIN MILLAR
Tonight's film:
La Regle du Jeu
Starring Marcel Dalio Nora Gregor
Christine, beautiful and wilful, is torn between a dashing young admirer, her rich husband and an old childhood friend. Then a crime passionnel takes place during a smart house-party at the chateau of the Marquis de la Chesnaye and as the threads of the affair are unravelled, the complete breakdown and decay of a social class emerge in this biting indictment of a society without values where flirtation and adultery take the place of love. The climax of the film, in which a rabbit-shoot degenerates into a human battle, remains one of the most powerful sequences in the history of the cinema.
Written by JEAN RENOIR and KARL KOCH Produced by CLAUDE RENOIR Directed by JEAN RENOIR
(A French film with English sub-titles)
Films: page 25