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I’ve seen Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game” in a campus film society, at a repertory theater and on laserdisc, and I’ve even taught it in a film class — but now I realize I’ve never really seen it at all.
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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.
But for many years you couldn’t even watch it properly.
Without going into detail about how it was butchered after its first release and then finally restored into a version that was actually longer than the original running time, let it be admitted that it always looked dim and murky — even on the Criterion laserdisc.
Prints shown on TV or 16 mm were even worse. Now comes a new Criterion DVD of the film so clear it sparkles, it dances, and the famous
