Director: Jean Renoir
The Rules of the Game is so ingeniously plotted that it feels like adapted Shakespeare - it is continually twisting and turning as the characters' desires bend and sway and break. Set in pre-WWII France, The Rules of the Game concerns the marital and extra-marital affairs of a particularly bourgeois set and their hired help.
It's really the film's inventive camera-work that's appealing - scenes are stuffed with characters moving in and out of the shot, and Renoir always manages some way to show the most important character(s) in the scene even if they're not talking. The only complaint I'd have is that it is difficult to keep track of all the characters, but still, I think that's part of the fun.
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