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| Genre/Form: | Drama |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Renoir; Claude Renoir; Carl Koch; Marcel Dalio; Nora Grégor; Roland Toutain |
| ISBN: | 0780026926 9780780026926 |
| OCLC Number: | 238892588 |
| Language Note: | In French with optional English subtitles. |
| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features (disc 1): new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; introduction to the film by Jean Renoir; audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by Peter Bogdonovich; version comparison: side-by-side analysis of the two endings of the film, along with an illustrated study of Renoir's shooting script; selected scene analysis by Renoir historian Christopher Faulkner; (disc 2): Excerpts from "Jean Renoir le patron: La règle et l'exception" (1966); part one of "Jean Renoir", a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by David Thompson; new video essay about the film's production, release, and later reconstruction; interview with Renoir's son, Alain, an assistant cameraman on the film; interview with the film's set designer Max Douy; 1995 interview with actress Mila Parély; written tributes to the film and Renoir. Booklet includes: writings by Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske. |
| Credits: | Photography, Jean Bachelet ; editor, Marguerite Renoir ; music, Roger DeÌsormieÌre. |
| Cast: | Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Roland Toutain ... [et al.]. |
| Description: | 2 videodiscs (106 min.) : digital, sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ( 24 p.: 18 cm.) |
| Details: | DVD format; Dolby Digital mono. |
| Series Title: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 216. |
| Other Titles: | Régle du jeu |
| Responsibility: | directed by Jean Renoir ; producer, Claude Renoir, Sr. ; scenario, Jean Renoir and Carl Koch. |
Abstract:
Cloaked in a comedy of manners, this scathing critique of corrupt French society is about a weekend hunting party at which amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests, which are also mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs.
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