Open to the Public
Date
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Sep 22, 2024 , 4:00pm
Location
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Darwin Hall 102
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Sponsor
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Sonoma Film Institute
Admission Fees
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FREE / $5 Donation suggested
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707-664-2606
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s THE RULES OF THE GAME is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château reveals some ugly truths about a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here. (1939, 108 min, in French w/English subtitles)
