The Rules of the Game
Drama • NR • 1939 • 1 hr 50 min
Starring
Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain
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The pace of the film seems to constantly gets faster while it’s characters become more like the prey they hunt.
There has never been a better exploration of disloyalty and the complications of sex and love than in this masterpiece.
Once you get past the much needed and necessary charachter development. You will be in for a crazy meditation on French society in the time.
A rarity in the top brass of canonised films by it being a fun goofball romp, getting increasingly outrageous and fun the longer it goes.
I understand it's purpose, but I've seen more entertaining and compelling films that satirize the bourgeoisie
You’ll fall asleep and wake up to the bland, exciting, and even humorous portions of the story. Bourgeois at its most comical.
A piece of art for what concerns the directing and the script
I'm inclined to believe that the "no animals were harmed in the making of this movie" post-script was mandated in response to this.
Wanted to love this, very slow and not very interesting. The last ten minutes get pretty fun but it takes forever to get there
A dark comedy in a labyrinth of confusions and delusions made by a set of spoiled characters. Revolting and fascinating at the same time.
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