MOVIE · 1939

The Rules of the Game

ComedyDramaRomance110 min

At a country estate outside Paris, aristocrats and their servants gather for a weekend of flirting, gossip, and a lavish hunt. Behind the polite routines, nearly everyone is pursuing the wrong person or hiding an affair, and small deceptions start colliding across class lines. A celebrated aviator arrives expecting a grand romantic gesture and instead steps into a house already tangled with jealousy, vanity, and shifting loyalties. As guests chase each other through drawing rooms, corridors, and the grounds, the rules meant to keep society orderly turn into a mask for cruelty and confusion. Jean Renoir turns the farce into a sharper look at a world too distracted to notice what its games are setting in motion.