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The rules of the game = La règle du jeu /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2075BD | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 216.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604655025
  • 160465502X
Other title:
  • Règle du jeu
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .R418 2011
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière.
Cast: Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Paulette Dubost, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Anne Mayen.Summary: Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00319 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1605030694X

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.

Special features: Introduction by director Jean Renoir; audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; comparison of the film's two endings; selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner; excerpts from "Jean Renoir, le patron : la règle et l'exception" (1966), a French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette; part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by film critic David Thompson; video essay about the film's production, release, and 1959 reconstruction; interview with film critic Olivier Curchod; interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series "Les écrans de la ville" in which Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and rerelease of the film; interviews with set designer Max Douy, Renoir's son, Alain, and actress Mila Parèly.

Booklet features an essay by Sesonske, writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut, and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others.

Blu-ray; region A; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

French dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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