The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
If The Rules of the Game hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
What ties these together is shame, loss of innocence, and all-consuming love. They share the same lens on class and money, men and women navigating expectations, and family duty. The feel is the same: dark comedy, melancholic, and escalating.
What ties these together is grief and shame. Both circle the same ground: class and money, family wounds passed down, and family duty. Both move the same way too, dark comedy, melancholic, escalating, and episodic.
The world both films live in revolves around class and money. The feel is the same: dark comedy, absurdist, and escalating.
