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LIX: La Règle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
This I did not get on with at all, and I can't see why it is Top One Hundred let alone number three. Not when there's I don't know, Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture to compete with. Not in the mood again?
André Jurieux (Roland Toutain) flies across the Atlantic for the love of (married) Christine (Nora Grégor), but she doesn't turn up to his landing and he sulks. Christine's husband, Robert de la Cheyniest (Marcel Dalio) is finishing an affair with Geneviève de Marras (Mila Parély). Not willing to give up, André gatecrashes de la Cheyniest's party at his chateau with the help of his friend Octave (Jean Renoir), who fancies Christine as well now you mention it. Meanwhile even some of the help are being jealous and having affairs, and you just know someone is going to get shot at the hunt or afterwards.
I guess the message is how beastly the bourgeois are, especially the male of the species, but even the lower orders are beastly. Apparently everyone hated the films when it came out; it's a Whitehall Hall farce, complete with opening and closing doors. Yawn.
I hope Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir, 1936) and La Grande Illusion (The Large Capuccino, Jean Renoir, 1937) down at #49 are better.
Totals: 59 (Cinema: 21; DVD: 36; TV: 2)
LIX: La Règle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
This I did not get on with at all, and I can't see why it is Top One Hundred let alone number three. Not when there's I don't know, Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture to compete with. Not in the mood again?
André Jurieux (Roland Toutain) flies across the Atlantic for the love of (married) Christine (Nora Grégor), but she doesn't turn up to his landing and he sulks. Christine's husband, Robert de la Cheyniest (Marcel Dalio) is finishing an affair with Geneviève de Marras (Mila Parély). Not willing to give up, André gatecrashes de la Cheyniest's party at his chateau with the help of his friend Octave (Jean Renoir), who fancies Christine as well now you mention it. Meanwhile even some of the help are being jealous and having affairs, and you just know someone is going to get shot at the hunt or afterwards.
I guess the message is how beastly the bourgeois are, especially the male of the species, but even the lower orders are beastly. Apparently everyone hated the films when it came out; it's a Whitehall Hall farce, complete with opening and closing doors. Yawn.
I hope Une Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir, 1936) and La Grande Illusion (The Large Capuccino, Jean Renoir, 1937) down at #49 are better.
Totals: 59 (Cinema: 21; DVD: 36; TV: 2)
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