La Règle du jeu

 

A still of La Règle du jeu [bfi.org.uk]

 Director: Jean Renoir

Production Country: France

Year: 1939

Only Renoir has managed to express on film the most elevated notion of naturalism, examining this world from a perspective that is dark, cruel but objective, before going on to achieve the serenity of the work of his old age. With him, one has no qualms about using superlatives: La Règle du jeu is quite simply the greatest French film by the greatest of French directors.