La règle du Jeu (The rules of the game)
At the invitation of the Comédie Française, Christiane Jatahy pursues her research into the interaction between theater and cinema, and the links between actor and character, reality and fiction. She stages La règle du Jeu, Jean Renoir’s cinematic masterpiece (which, in turn, was inspired by Musset’s Caprices de Marianne and Beaumarchais’ Le Mariage de Figaro).
Combining dramaturgical coherence and formal vivacity, she creates this theatrical version, freeing herself from the boundaries between disciplines to sublimate their codes. On stage and on screen, the actors are at the center of the connecting operations: depth of field, shifting points of view, the camera captures emotions and surprises situations.
“We’re dancing on a volcano”, said Renoir of his Fantaisie dramatique filmed in 1939.
Christiane Jatahy orchestrates both the vaudevillian machinery and the tragic dimension of La Règle du jeu, keeping in touch with the mutations of contemporary society. Mirroring the castle of the Marquis de La Cheynaye, the stage of the Salle Richelieu becomes the setting for a mise en abyme of the game, of eras, of the here and now.
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La Règle du jeu
Based on the film by Jean Renoir
Stage version, directed by Christiane Jatahy
Director of photography, cameraman Paulo Camacho
Set designers Marcelo Lipiani and Christiane Jatahy
Artistic collaborator Henrique Mariano
Costume designer Pascale Paume
Lighting designer Marie-Christine Soma
Video system designer Júlio Parente
First assistant director Juliette Crété
Second Assistant Director Marcus Borja
Chief sound operator David Rit
Chief Editor Julie Delord
Sound editor Olivier Walczak
Sound mixer Matthieu Cochin
Calibrator Olivier Cohen
First assistant operator Marie Deshayes
Assistant sound operator Arnaud Trochu
Assistant editors Charles Blengino and Caroline Bevalot
Make-up artist Claire Cohen
Film electrician Julien Bouvier
Graphic designer Nicolas Meunier
Film production consultant Yvonnick Le Fustec
Film technical advisor Gérard Lafont
With the actors and actress from La Comédie Française
Eric Génovèse, Sylvia Bergé, Céline Brune, Laurent Natrella, Jérôme Pouly, Alain Lenglet, Julie Sicard, Christian Gonon, Elsa Lepoivre, Nicolas Lormeau, Bakary Sangaré, Serge Bagdassarian, Jérémy Lopez, Suliane Brahim, Gilles David, Eliott Jénicot, Jennifer Decker, Danièle Lebrun, Claire De La Rüe Du Can, Benjamin Lavernhe, Laurent Lafitte, Pauline Clément, Rebecca Marder, Didier Sandre, Julien Frison, Dominique Blanc
Production La Comédie Française
