The Rules of the Game
(1939)
Directed by it's star
Jean Renoir this film also features Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, Roland
Toutain and Paulette Dubost. Various upper class French people and
servants head to stay at a châteaux in the country will conducting
various affairs.
This is a comedy of
manners and while the emphasis is not entirely on the comedy element
it does a good job of showing balanced characters in what becomes a
farcical situation. What the film does best is never mention the
impending war but hint at it with the seemingly barbaric hunting
massacre scene. For fans of Gosford Park (2001) this is somewhat in a
similar vein and well worth watching.
4/5
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