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The Rules of the Game

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( Catalog Number CC1150L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Audio Essay by Renoir Authority Alexander Sesonske Spoken by Peter Bogdanovich
Jean Renoir's "Le Patron" Featurette
Commentary on the History of the Renoir Production, Subsequent Destruction, and Restoration
An Informative Conversation Between Renoir and Actor Marcel Dalio
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The Rules of the Game
1939 - 110 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on his vast estate. The guest list includes Robert's mistress Genevieve (Mila Parely), from whom he's trying to part, and  Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a famed aviator who is in love with Robert's wife, Christine (Nora Gregor). As they begin a dizzy dance of escape and pursuit, their games are observed and echoed by the servants below the stairs. The gamekeeper Schumacher (Gaston Modot) is trying to keep the poacher, Marceau (Julien Carette), from poaching on his pretty wife, Lisette (Paulette Dubost), unaware that his boss also has his eye on her. The passionate Jurieu, the only guest incapable of the appropriate hypocrisy, finds Christine in an embrace with a random lover (Pierre Nay), and the startled woman decides to leave Robert and go away with the aviator. Renoir's subtle deployment of long tracking shots in multiplanar deep focus reveals the relations of both groups and individuals as he dismantles the rituals of hypocrisy that make this society run smoothly.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Regle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as morally perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWII. It wasn't until 1956 that Renoir was able to restore the film to its original length. In retrospect, this reaction seems both puzzling and understandable; at its heart, Rules of the Game is a very moral film about frequently amoral people. A comedy of manners whose wit only occasionally betrays its more serious intentions, it contrasts the romantic entanglements of rich and poor during a weekend at a country estate. Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio). Robert, however, has a mistress of his own, whom he invites to a weekend hunting party at his country home, along with Andre and his friend Octave (played by Jean Renoir himself). Meanwhile, the hired help have their own game of musical beds going on: a poacher is hired to work as a servant at the estate and immediately makes plans to seduce the gamekeeper's wife, while the gamekeeper recognizes him only as the man who's been trying to steal his rabbits. Among the upper classes, infidelity is not merely accepted but expected; codes are breached not by being unfaithful, but by lacking the courtesy to lie about it in public. The weekend ends in a tragedy that suggests that this way of life may soon be coming to an end. Renoir's witty, acidic screenplay makes none of the characters heroes or villains, and his graceful handling of his cast is well served by his visual style. He tells his story with long, uninterrupted takes using deep focus (cinematographer Jean Bachelet proves a worthy collaborator here), following the action with a subtle rhythm that never calls attention to itself. The sharply-cut hunting sequence makes clear that Renoir avoided more complex editing schemes by choice, believing that long takes created a more lifelike rhythm and reduced the manipulations of over-editing. Rules of the Game uses WWI as an allegory for WWII, and its representation of a vanishing way of life soon became all too true for Renoir himself, who, within a year of the film's release, was forced to leave Europe for the United States.. --- Mark Deming

Jean Renoir's masterpiece and his last French film before he went to Hollywood, Rules of the Game (1939) is an intricate, tragi-comic indictment of a decadent European culture on the verge of collapse and war. Renoir's innovative "observational" style of long takes, deep focus, and gracefully subtle camera movements relates the characters to their environment and to each other, communicating the complexity of the class-based society seen in microcosm at the film's central country house. Rather than overtly manipulating the viewer's attention and emotional responses, Renoir's style allows the audience to share his ambivalent view of human nature, playing out multiple, metaphorically loaded love triangles among the guests and servants at the estate. Setting up the story around contrasts between tradition and modernity, individual passion and social rules, and nature and culture (revealing the corrupting force of culture in a brutal hunting sequence), Renoir presents a declining society doomed by its intractable conflict

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Cast for The Rules of the Game

Nora Gregor - Christine de La Chesnaye
Jean Renoir - Octave
Marcel Dalio - Robert de la Chesnaye
Roland Toutain - Andre Jurieu
Paulette Dubost - Lisette
Gaston Modot - Schumacher
Pierre Magnier - General
Leon Larive - Cuisinier
Jenny Helia - Kitchen Servant
Mila Parely - Genevieve de Marrast
Pierre Nay - M. de Saint-Aubin
Anne Mayen - Jackie
Odette Talazac - Charlotte de la Plante
Andre Zwoboda - Ingenieur
Henri Cartier-Bresson - English Servant
Tony Corteggiani - Berthelin
Antoine Corteggiani - Berthelin, the Huntsman
Julien Carette - Marceau
Nicolas Amato - South Americain
Claire Gerard - Mme. La Bruyere
Richard Francoeur - M. La Bruyere
Camille Francois - Radio Announcer
Eddy Debray - Corneille
Roger Forster - Effimine invitee
Lise Elina - Radio Reporter

Crew for The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir - Director / Screenwriter
Claude Renoir - Producer
Camille Francois - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Carl Koch - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Andre Zwoboda - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Jean Bachelet - Cinematographer
Frederick Chopin - Featured Music
G. Claret - Composer (Music Score)
Desormes Delonnel-Garnier - Composer (Music Score)
Roger Desormieres - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Monsigny - Composer (Music Score)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Featured Music
Earl Rose - Composer (Music Score)
Camille Saint-Saens - Featured Music
Salabert - Composer (Music Score)
Vincent Scotto - Composer (Music Score)
Marguerite Renoir - Editor
Max Douy - Production Designer / Set Designer
Eugene Lourie - Production Designer / Set Designer
Joseph Kosma - Musical Direction/Supervision
Coco Chanel - Costume Designer
Henri Cartier-Bresson - First Assistant Director
Joseph DeBretagne - Sound/Sound Designer

Feature Details

Title: The Rules of the Game
Feature Release Date: 1939
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 110 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

Catalog Number: CC1150L
UPC: 715515000918
ISBN: 1-55940-008-0
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: French
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1150L-N
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Jean Renoir's...

The Rules of the Game

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1150L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Audio Essay by Renoir Authority Alexander Sesonske Spoken by Peter Bogdanovich
Jean Renoir's "Le Patron" Featurette
Commentary on the History of the Renoir Production, Subsequent Destruction, and Restoration
An Informative Conversation Between Renoir and Actor Marcel Dalio
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...
LaserDiscs

The Rules of the Game
1939 - 110 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on his vast estate. The guest list includes Robert's mistress Genevieve (Mila Parely), from whom he's trying to part, and  Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a famed aviator who is in love with Robert's wife, Christine (Nora Gregor). As they begin a dizzy dance of escape and pursuit, their games are observed and echoed by the servants below the stairs. The gamekeeper Schumacher (Gaston Modot) is trying to keep the poacher, Marceau (Julien Carette), from poaching on his pretty wife, Lisette (Paulette Dubost), unaware that his boss also has his eye on her. The passionate Jurieu, the only guest incapable of the appropriate hypocrisy, finds Christine in an embrace with a random lover (Pierre Nay), and the startled woman decides to leave Robert and go away with the aviator. Renoir's subtle deployment of long tracking shots in multiplanar deep focus reveals the relations of both groups and individuals as he dismantles the rituals of hypocrisy that make this society run smoothly.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Regle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as morally perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWII. It wasn't until 1956 that Renoir was able to restore the film to its original length. In retrospect, this reaction seems both puzzling and understandable; at its heart, Rules of the Game is a very moral film about frequently amoral people. A comedy of manners whose wit only occasionally betrays its more serious intentions, it contrasts the romantic entanglements of rich and poor during a weekend at a country estate. Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio). Robert, however, has a mistress of his own, whom he invites to a weekend hunting party at his country home, along with Andre and his friend Octave (played by Jean Renoir himself). Meanwhile, the hired help have their own game of musical beds going on: a poacher is hired to work as a servant at the estate and immediately makes plans to seduce the gamekeeper's wife, while the gamekeeper recognizes him only as the man who's been trying to steal his rabbits. Among the upper classes, infidelity is not merely accepted but expected; codes are breached not by being unfaithful, but by lacking the courtesy to lie about it in public. The weekend ends in a tragedy that suggests that this way of life may soon be coming to an end. Renoir's witty, acidic screenplay makes none of the characters heroes or villains, and his graceful handling of his cast is well served by his visual style. He tells his story with long, uninterrupted takes using deep focus (cinematographer Jean Bachelet proves a worthy collaborator here), following the action with a subtle rhythm that never calls attention to itself. The sharply-cut hunting sequence makes clear that Renoir avoided more complex editing schemes by choice, believing that long takes created a more lifelike rhythm and reduced the manipulations of over-editing. Rules of the Game uses WWI as an allegory for WWII, and its representation of a vanishing way of life soon became all too true for Renoir himself, who, within a year of the film's release, was forced to leave Europe for the United States.. --- Mark Deming

Jean Renoir's masterpiece and his last French film before he went to Hollywood, Rules of the Game (1939) is an intricate, tragi-comic indictment of a decadent European culture on the verge of collapse and war. Renoir's innovative "observational" style of long takes, deep focus, and gracefully subtle camera movements relates the characters to their environment and to each other, communicating the complexity of the class-based society seen in microcosm at the film's central country house. Rather than overtly manipulating the viewer's attention and emotional responses, Renoir's style allows the audience to share his ambivalent view of human nature, playing out multiple, metaphorically loaded love triangles among the guests and servants at the estate. Setting up the story around contrasts between tradition and modernity, individual passion and social rules, and nature and culture (revealing the corrupting force of culture in a brutal hunting sequence), Renoir presents a declining society doomed by its intractable conflict

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Cast for The Rules of the Game

Nora Gregor - Christine de La Chesnaye
Jean Renoir - Octave
Marcel Dalio - Robert de la Chesnaye
Roland Toutain - Andre Jurieu
Paulette Dubost - Lisette
Gaston Modot - Schumacher
Pierre Magnier - General
Leon Larive - Cuisinier
Jenny Helia - Kitchen Servant
Mila Parely - Genevieve de Marrast
Pierre Nay - M. de Saint-Aubin
Anne Mayen - Jackie
Odette Talazac - Charlotte de la Plante
Andre Zwoboda - Ingenieur
Henri Cartier-Bresson - English Servant
Tony Corteggiani - Berthelin
Antoine Corteggiani - Berthelin, the Huntsman
Julien Carette - Marceau
Nicolas Amato - South Americain
Claire Gerard - Mme. La Bruyere
Richard Francoeur - M. La Bruyere
Camille Francois - Radio Announcer
Eddy Debray - Corneille
Roger Forster - Effimine invitee
Lise Elina - Radio Reporter

Crew for The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir - Director / Screenwriter
Claude Renoir - Producer
Camille Francois - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Carl Koch - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Andre Zwoboda - Screenwriter / First Assistant Director
Jean Bachelet - Cinematographer
Frederick Chopin - Featured Music
G. Claret - Composer (Music Score)
Desormes Delonnel-Garnier - Composer (Music Score)
Roger Desormieres - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Monsigny - Composer (Music Score)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Featured Music
Earl Rose - Composer (Music Score)
Camille Saint-Saens - Featured Music
Salabert - Composer (Music Score)
Vincent Scotto - Composer (Music Score)
Marguerite Renoir - Editor
Max Douy - Production Designer / Set Designer
Eugene Lourie - Production Designer / Set Designer
Joseph Kosma - Musical Direction/Supervision
Coco Chanel - Costume Designer
Henri Cartier-Bresson - First Assistant Director
Joseph DeBretagne - Sound/Sound Designer

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