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The Rules of the Game (4K-UHD)

The Rules of the Game (4K-UHD)

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Brand: Criterion
Format: 4K-UHD

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here.

    4K UHD + Blu-ray Special Edition Features

    • New 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
    • Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir
    • Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
    • Comparison of the film’s two endings
    • Selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner
    • Excerpts from a 1966 French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette
    • Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 documentary by film critic David Thompson
    • Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction
    • Interview with film critic Olivier Curchod
    • Interview from a 1965 episode of the French television series Les écrans de la ville with Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand
    • Interviews with set designer Max Douy; Renoir’s son, Alain; and actor Mila Parély
    • PLUS: An essay by Sesonske; writings by Jean Renoir, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and François Truffaut; and tributes to the film by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and others
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