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THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEDIENCE IN 1939, FILMMAKER Jean Renoir presented
The Rules of the Game to a Parisian audience. Of the screenplay, which he also authored, Renoir said it was “a precise description of the bourgeoisie of our age.” The film outraged both audience and critics, and the French government rushed to ban it on the grounds it had “an undesirable influence over the young.” In the ensuing decades,
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the film found a place among the masterpieces of cinema, and it is this biting satire which, eight decades later, became the inspiration for ten artists to each create a work based on its themes. The exhibition, named after the film, is part of the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival. * “The Rules of the Game," Former Nursery, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port, www.filmfestival.gr
THE 2022 EDITION
