What is The Rules of the Game / Boudou Saved From Drowning about?

Double Feature: THE RULES OF THE GAME (LA REGLE DU JEU), 1939, Janus Films, 110 min. Dir. Jean Renoir. A weekend hunting party at the sprawling country home of Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest (Marcel Dalio) proves disastrous as the party's invitees - and the manor's waitstaff - harbor secrets from each other, set against the background of a lovelorn aviator's welcome-home celebration. In French with English subtitles. Beautiful New DCP! BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING (BOUDU SAUVE DES EAUX), 1932, Janus Films, 84 min. Dir. Jean Renoir. Michel Simon plays hirsute Parisian tramp Boudu, who plunges into the Seine only to be saved from suicide by a bourgeois bookseller, Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval). Edouard takes the hobo under his wing and invites him home as a permanent houseguest, but little does he know that Boudu's presence will irreparably shake the Lestingois family to its core. In French with English subtitles.

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What is The Rules of the Game / Boudou Saved From Drowning about?: Double Feature: THE RULES OF THE GAME (LA REGLE DU JEU), 1939, Janus Films, 110 min. Dir. Jean Renoir. A weekend hunting party at the sprawling country home of Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest (Marcel Dalio) proves disastrous as the party's invitees - and the manor's waitstaff - harbor secrets from each other, set against the background of a lovelorn aviator's welcome-home celebration. In French with English subtitles.
Beautiful New DCP! BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING (BOUDU SAUVE DES EAUX), 1932, Janus Films, 84 min. Dir. Jean Renoir. Michel Simon plays hirsute Parisian tramp Boudu, who plunges into the Seine only to be saved from suicide by a bourgeois bookseller, Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval). Edouard takes the hobo under his wing and invites him home as a permanent houseguest, but little does he know that Boudu's presence will irreparably shake the Lestingois family to its core. In French with English subtitles.