The Rules of the Game

Name: The Rules of the Game
Start: 2025-03-03T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Coolidge Corner Theatre

Schedule

Mon Mar 03 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Coolidge Corner Theatre | Brookline, MA

Jean Renoir's scathing critique of corrupt French society, cloaked in a comedy of manners. At la Colinière, the deceptively idyllic country estate of a wealthy Parisian aristocrat, a selection of society’s finest gather for a rural sojourn and shooting party. Over the course of the weekend, they reveal themselves to be absurdly cruel and vapid.
It took decades for Jean Renoir’s THE RULES OF THE GAME to be recognized as a masterpiece. The film received negative reviews and provoked near riots in Paris upon its release. As a result, Renoir cut 23 minutes from the original version. Even then, it was banned by the French government. The original negative was destroyed during World War II, and only in 1959 was the film fully reconstructed from surviving prints and embraced by audiences and critics alike. Now, thanks to an unprecedented digital restoration, audiences can see the film in a form as close to Renoir's original intentions as possible. Playing with the lightest of touches, yet stinging like the greatest of tragedies, THE RULES OF THE GAME has come to be regarded as one of the finest movies ever made.
Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington's production of The Triumph of Love.
The Triumph of Love will play at The Huntington Theatre from March 7 through April 6, 2025.
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Stage & Screen is a collaboration between the Huntington Theatre Company and the Coolidge that explores the depictions of shared themes in upcoming Huntington productions and acclaimed films.
Throughout their season, Huntington artists will appear at the Coolidge to discuss the films that inspire and impact their work, and the different ways in which film and theater can enlighten and inform audiences.