Title:
The Rules of the game [videorecording] / director and screenplay, Jean Renoir ; producer, Claude Renoir, Sr.
Author:
Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.
Renoir, Claude.
Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-
Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990 Règle du jeu. English.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Publication Information:
United States : Criterion Collection, c2004.
Call Number:
PN1997 .R85 2004 DISCS 1-2
Abstract:
Includes 2 pamphlets in pocket: pam. 1: 24 pages featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske; pam. 2: List of films in the Criterion Collection with issue nos.
A comedy drama set on the eve of World War II. It contrasts the affairs of the French aristocracy and the working class at a weekend house party. Masters and their servants are involved in an immoral erotic charade that builds to a shattering climax.
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Règle du jeu (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9780780026926
Series:
Criterion collection ; 216
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 216.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. + 2 pamphlets (18 x 13 cm.)
General Note:
"Special edition double-disc set"--Container.
"Cat. no. RUL020"--Case.
French with optional English subtitles.
Originally released in 1939; restored by Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand and re-released in 1959 by Les Grands Films Classiques.
Full feature format (CAV), digital sound.
Special features: Audio essay/by Alexander Sesonske; spoken by P. Bogdanovich -- Jean Renoir le patron (1967), excerpt.
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