La R gle du Jeu

Of Jean Renoir's 'La R gle du jeu' (1939), Richard Roud noted: 'if France were destroyed tomorrow and nothing remained but this film, the whole country and its civilisation could be reconstructed from it.' An extravagant claim, but one that in the view of Keith Reader is justified. In this original, up-to-date, scrupulously documented book on one of the great films of world cinema, Reader focuses...