
09 Jul 1939

The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
Félicie
Charles
Maxence
Loïc
Elise
Mother
Sister
Brother-in-Law
Edwige
Dora
Léontès
Paulina
Hermione
Perdita
Florizel
Polyxène
Lord
Lord
The Flutist
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