Time & Location
24 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Bhubaneswar, Guru Kelu Charan Mahapatra Odissi Research Centre, XIM Square, JAYADEV VIHAR, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013, India
About The Event
3.30 pm
The Rules of the Game (106 mins/B&W/1939)
Dir: Jean Renoir/French/France
At the cusp of the second world war, the film explores the corruption of the French bourgeoisie. The film set in a country hunting chateau explores ugly truths of its members. The film was subjected to cuts after its 1939 release and its original negatives were destroyed during WWII. The film was reconstructed during 1959 and we present the reconstructed film.
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) a major filmmaker who worked across the silent era, to talkies to colour films and active from 1920s till 1960s, known for films “The Grand Illusion”, “the Rules of the Game” and “the River”. He influenced the French new wave film makers (Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer) to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and many others.
I believe that one of the most important functions of the filmmaker is the destruction of cliché. We are surrounded…