Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece, La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), offers a scathing, satirical critique of a decadent French upper class on the brink of World War II. Following a disastrous, riot-prone premiere and a wartime ban, the film was restored in the 1950s and is now celebrated for its pioneering deep-focus cinematography and complex portrayal of moral hypocrisy. Read the full analysis at Criterion . The Rules of the Game: Everyone Has Their Reasons | Current
By February 1939, it no longer seemed evident that the surrender of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler at Munich had “saved the peace. The Criterion Collection La regola del gioco - Jean Renoir