Another first! This time my first Renoir film. 'The Rule of the Game' is an incredibly sophisticated piece of film-making considering the era of its making - but I was nonetheless disappointed. this is, after all, supposed to be one of the ten best films ever made (according to quite a few respectable critics - it's at number three in Sight and Sound's Critics Top Ten!). I also managed to completely miss the film's famously strident critique of European society on the eve of WWII. I'm sure that's just me being dense however, because even the BBC's page on the film informs me that "The divisions between class, sex, social values and even dietary needs, open up like a gaping wound" - yikes!
There is a long hunting scene that makes the whole movie worthwhile though. Really excellent scene.
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