Of Jean Renoir's "La Regle du jeu" (1939), Richard Roud noted:
"if France were destroyed tomorrow and nothing remained but this
film, the whole country and its civilisation could be reconstructed
from it.'" An extravagant claim, but one that in the view of Keith
Reader is justified. In this original, up-to-date, scrupulously
documented book on one of the great films of world cinema, Reader
focuses on "La Regle du jeu "in the context of both the time in
which it was made and the currents of intertextuality by which it
is traversed. He examines sequences from the film itself, its
themes, reception and critical approaches and readings. He also
explores its extraordinary subversive charge and its dynamic effect
on subsequent generations of filmmakers, including Alain Resnais
and Robert Altman.
This is the essential companion to "La Regle du jeu,"
demonstrating as it does why this film remains so central to French
cinema and to the history of French and indeed European
culture.
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