The Rules of the Game

La règle du jeu, feature film, 1939

DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir

The Rules of the Game

CAST:
Roland Toutain (André Jurieux),
Nora Gregor (Christine de la Cheyniest),
Marcel Dalio (Robert de la Cheyniest),
Mila Parély (Geneviève de Marras),
Jean Renoir (Octave)

SCRIPT:
Jean Renoir,
Carl Koch

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jean-Paul Alphen,
Jean Bachelet,
Jacques Lemare,
Alain Renoir

Synopsis:
André is an excellent aviator who is unhappily in love with Christine. She is married to a rich aristocrat, Robert, who arrogantly cheats on her with Genevičve. He even invites her lover to the family’s castle in the country and organizes a hunting trip. Persuaded by a friend to accept Robert’s invitation, André joins the party. While the gentlemen play their little games, the servants play them too. It seems that there are love games in the backstage at every step of the way and they only differ in their performance.

35 mm, b/w, 110 min