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05/12/07
The Rules of the Game (1939)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:10
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy... [More]
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
Director: Jean Renoir
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Reviews for The Rules of the Game
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Top CriticThe mobile camera seems to be a member of the party, as it follows the almost balletically choreographed movements of the cast. The effect for the audience is transcendental. We are watching life at its messiest, unfolding at its most beautiful.
04/26/07
Top CriticA disaster when initially released, the movie's reputation has only grown since.
02/16/07
Top CriticThere are about a dozen genuine miracles in the history of cinema, and one of them is Jean Renoir's supreme 1939 tragi-comedy The Rules of the Game.
12/28/06
Top CriticWhat ultimately defines the film, what makes it unforgettable, is its tragic gravity.
12/22/06
Top Critic[The film] is a comedy, a tragedy, a portrait of class manners, a love story of touching caprice (who will Nora Grégor's Christine fall for? Whoever woos her at the right moment), and far and away the cinema's greatest midsummer night's dream.
11/08/06
Top CriticThe film was withdrawn, recut, and eventually banned by the occupying forces for its "demoralizing" effects. It was not shown again in its complete form until 1965, when it became clear that here, perhaps, was the greatest film ever made.
11/08/06
Top CriticLike the very greatest artists in all media, Renoir was able to transcend his own perspective, his own prejudices, and glimpse something of the terror and wonder of human life, the pain of misapplied or rejected love, for rich as for poor.
11/02/06
Top CriticIf you think you know it, see it again for its newly rediscovered depth of field, and even more, for its infinite wellsprings of character and empathy.
10/31/06
Top CriticSo simple and so labyrinthine, so guileless and so angry, so innocent and so dangerous, that you can't simply watch it, you have to absorb it.
04/09/04
Top CriticA deeply personal statement of unusual richness and complexity.
11/04/03
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