10 Sep 2023

Reel Classics: The Rules of the Game (1939)

Reel Classics: The Rules of the Game (1939)

Sunday 10 September, 12:30pm

Bookings are essential. For Reel McCoy membership, please contact the president at reelmccoyfilm@gmail.com. For CMAG Memberships queries, please contact cmag@act.gov.au or phone us on 6207 3968.  

Members are invited to purchase an annual Reel McCoy membership at the discounted price of $20 (usually $50/year) upon presentation of their current ACT M&G membership card.  

Reel McCoy Film Society presents bi-monthly film screenings of classic cinema. 


The Rules of the Game (1939)

113 MIN, FRANCE

DIR: JEAN RENOIR

CAST: MARCEL DALIO, NORA GREGOR, JEAN RENOIR, MILEY PARLEY, JULIEN CARETTE, GASTON MODOT, ROULAND TOUTAINA

Marquis organises a weekend shooting party and among the guests are: Genevieve, his mistress; Christine, his wife; Andre, the aviator in love with his wife; and his friend Octave. Over the weekend the upper class and their servants play the game of love which leads to comedy and tragedy. This is a scathing attack on a social system that the director was vehemently against. It is such a portrait of the selfishness and decadence of the French upper class that the French Government banned it out of fear that it would demoralise the French population on the eve of World War 2.

Reel Classics: The Rules of the Game (1939)

Sunday 10 September, 12:30pm

Bookings are essential. For Reel McCoy membership, please contact the president at reelmccoyfilm@gmail.com. For CMAG Memberships queries, please contact cmag@act.gov.au or phone us on 6207 3968.  

Members are invited to purchase an annual Reel McCoy membership at the discounted price of $20 (usually $50/year) upon presentation of their current ACT M&G membership card.