The Rules of the Game
4.2
(71)
Drama
Comedy
Romance
1939
106 min
NR
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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"A French classic, comedy drama, of class distinction that still holds up today. One of Renoir's best."
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"Imagine the characters from 'Seinfeld', 'Schitt's Creek', and 'Downton Abbey' spending the weekend in a French aristocrat's huge "country house" just months before WWII begins. This French farce may not have invented the 'comedy of manners' genre, but it remains among it's highest expressions. Reveals Jean Renoir to be one of the most original and gifted "autuers" in history, and among the earliest "filmmakers" to deserve that moniker..."
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