Wednesday | July 7, 1999 7:00 pm

The Rules of the Game
(La règle du jeu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Jean Renoir.
With Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Jean Renoir.
France, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.

Renoir’s belief that "honest sincerity is catastrophic in a world where everyone has his reasons," is extraordinarily articulated and intricately examined in this satirical, multilayered anatomy of French aristocracy. Its balanced mixture of farce and brittle irony have led many to consider The Rules of the Game Renoir’s masterpiece.

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