“The film of films.”
—François Truffaut

“THE RULES OF THE GAME taught me the rules of the game.”
—Robert Altman

“This magical and elusive work, which always seems to place second behind CITIZEN KANE in polls of great films, is so simple and so labyrinthine, so guileless and so angry, so innocent and so dangerous, that you can’t simply watch it, you have to absorb it.”
—Roger Ebert

Jean Renoir’s sharp, venomous portrait of a way of life that was disappearing even as cameras rolled has been restored to its original specifications. At a country estate, a group of French aristocrats gather and reveal their true colors as the storm clouds of war gather around them.