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1967
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Roger Vadim's "The Game Is Over" is a tedious and ridiculous film of great physical beauty, directed with Vadim's unfailing bad taste and photographed by Claude Renoir with breathtaking virtuosity. In type, it is not unlike the early vehicles in which Vadim starred his former wife, Brigitte Bardot.
Based on a novel by Emile Zola (curiously enough, the very next day I watched THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA [1937], a superb Hollywood biopic!), the film deals with a bourgeois family disrupted when the ageing patriarch's second and much younger bride falls for her husband's son from his earlier marriage (who is her peer); while the script isn't especi...
The Game Is Over received mostly negative reviews in the US. Critics praised the cinematography by Claude Renoir, but called the film's story and dialogue trite.
The Game Is Over: Directed by Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter McEnery, Tina Aumont. In Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée.
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- Roger Vadim
- R
- Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli, Peter Mcenery
98 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
- Roger Vadim
- Les Films Marceau, Mega Film
Synopsis. In Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée. Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come...
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