La Règle du jeu ・ Comédie-Française

Following in the footsteps of Jean Renoir – who pays homage in his film to Musset’s The Moods of Marianne and Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro – Christiane Jatahy creates a theatrical adaptation of Renoir’s cinematographic masterpiece while combining dramatic consistency and formal vivacity, crossing the boundaries between disciplines so as to sublimate their codes.

The core of her work as a director and filmmaker is to question the interaction between theatre and cinema. By working on depth of field, shifting points of view and breaking the fourth wall, The actors are placed at the centre of operations of connection that capture emotions and catch situations by surprise. And the spectator, invited to the party organised by Robert at his home, which is none other than the Salle Richelieu, becomes both witness and actor of the dramatic fantasy playing out before his eyes. “I define territories to then erase their boundaries and make them more blurred, more shifting. Actor and character, actors and audience, reality and fiction, each of these frontiers is a playground and everything happens in an unstable balance”, she explains. “Theatre is created between two people, not in each one individually, that is to say in response and in reaction to each other.”
“We are dancing on a volcano”, commented Jean Renoir about his film shot in 1939. In step with changes in contemporary society, Christiane Jatahyin the same movement orchestrates the vaudevillian devices and tragic dimension of La Règle du jeu.

Creative team

Staging: Christiane Jatahy
Director of photography: Paulo Camacho
Scenography: Marcelo Lipiani et Christiane Jatahy
Artistic collaborator: Henrique Mariano
Costumes: Pascale Paume
Lights: Marie-Christine Soma
Vide : Júlio Parente
First assistant: Juliette Crété
Second assistant: Marcus Borja
Sound operator: David Rit
Film editor: Julie Delord
Sound editor: Olivier Walczak
Mixer: Matthieu Cochin
Calibrator: Olivier Cohen
First assistant operator: Marie Deshayes
Assistant sound operator: Arnaud Trochu
Editor assistants: Charles Blengino et Caroline Bevalot
Make-up: Claire Cohen
Movie electrician: Julien Bouvier
Movie graphic designer: Nicolas Meunier
Production advisor : Yvonnick Le Fustec
Movie technical advisor: Gérard Lafont

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