Notes on…

The Rules of the Game(1939)

Dir. Directed by Jean Renoir


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)

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Synopsis: A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.