I think I just didn't understand this.
The ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
— Terry Eagleton (London Review of Books)
The reason why the New Wave happened in France and not elsewhere is the same as why Le Règle du Jeu happened in France: it is the only country in the world where a departure from the norm in art is not immediately scoffed at.
— Satyajit Ray: An Indian New Wave? (1971)
Synopsis: A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.