The rules of the game =  La règle du jeu / 
 Règle du jeu 

 - Blu-ray special edition. 
, France 
 - 1 videodisc (106 min.) :  sound, black and white ;  4 3/4 in. +  booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.) 
 -  4 3/4 in. 
 - Criterion collection ;  216 .
 - Criterion collection ;  216. .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière.  Director of photography, Jean Bachelet ; editors, Marguerite Renoir, Marthe Huguet ; music, Roger Désormière. 
<br/><br/>Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Paulette Dubost, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Anne Mayen. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Blu-ray; region A; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player. 
<br/><br/><br/>French dialogue with optional English subtitles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781604655025 160465502X 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>715515088619 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>CC2075BD  Criterion Collection 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Upper class--Drama.<br/>Man-woman relationships--Drama.<br/>Married people--Drama.<br/>Adultery--Drama.<br/>Adultery.<br/>Man-woman relationships.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Married people.<br/>Upper class.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France--Social life and customs--20th century--Drama.<br/>France.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Comedy films.<br/>Drama.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Films for the hearing impaired.<br/>Melodramas (Motion pictures)<br/>Films for the hearing impaired.<br/>Comedy films.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Melodramas (Motion pictures)<br/>Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.<br/>Films comiques.<br/>Films de fiction.<br/>Mélodrames (Films)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1997  / .R418 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/72