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Podcast: The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode: Episode 619: Rules of the Game (1939)
Description: French Month continues with a look at Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game. Released originally in 1939, the film was based on Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne and skewers French nobility in a comedy of manners. Released on the eve of World War II, the film was not a hit cut down to a mere 86 minute running time. It would later be expanded another 20 minutes in a version that not even Renoir had ever seen.Robert Bellissimo and Otto Bruno join Mike to discuss this beloved film. Become a supporter of this po...