The Rules of the Game : Jean Renoir

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"You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons” - Octave as Jean Renoir As Renoir’s The Grand Illusion [1937] ends with the uncertainty of WWI, The Rules of the Game [1939] begins with the certainty of WWII. Like settings, the themes of class disintegration, tragic-romance, multilingual situations are very close to the prior one. The long and chaotic hunting scenes in the wood are the sure symbolic predictions of futile wars of the imperials is so prophetic in the film. I have seen the same stands of prophecy in Charlie Chaplin & Sergei Eisenstein films previously.
Collage: Juliette Binoche [Left] & Nora Gregor [Right] One thing I have noticed which has given me a longstanding impression on my mind is that Christine’s knowledge and learning on colonial history of America and sculptural and artistic collection of Chinese and Indian miniature statues and recurrent projection African symbols in black figures. And most importantly semantic dramas and dances staging that give a sign of Nazis Jewish cleansing from Europe. When I was watching Nora Gregor’s acting, I found out that not only did her appearance very similar to Juliette Binoche but her facial expressions are also alike.
Photo:Jean Renoir [Right] I didn’t know that Octave was played by Jean Renoir himself. It was a big miss to observe Renoir’s as an actor at first. Like Chaplin & Godard, Renoir is a true cinema auteur the world has its list. The parallel plots of triangular affairs and adultery between the elite class of Christine-Robert-André and working class of Lisette-Schumacher- Marceau are focused on very playfully but the end of these relations is represented in a very absurd way. It felt a bit bizarre at first but it is ultimately a satire where the unconventional things happen that we overlook nakedly in reality. This kind of sharp-edged satire I have noticed in the films of Ruben Ostlund; specially in The Square [2017] in the twenty-first century’s mode of cinematic narrative.
Poster:The Square [2017] directed by Ruben Ostlund The Rules of the Game [1939] La règle du jeu [French] Jean Renoir French, France

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