# The Rules of the Game (1939)

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**Original title**: *La Règle du jeu*
**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Drama, Comedy, Romance
**Directed by**: Jean Renoir
**Written by**: Jean Renoir
**Starring**: Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Paulette Dubost

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

This is not a weekend so much as a hothouse where everyone’s manners are sharper than their morals. A marquis hosts a country house party where flirtations ricochet between guests and staff until envy turns lethal. The film gets closer to the chaos than the tragedy.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, cerebral, playful

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