The Rules of the Game : Jean Renoir
"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 Ch...