The Rules of the Game Excerpt 1: The Beginning—Role of the Radio; public/private space (3’42”)

Excerpt 1

 

  Questions

1. Describe the first shot in this excerpt. How does it begin? Size of the shot and camera movements. What type of shot is it (typical for Renoir)? 
2. Describe the 6th shot of this excerpt, which takes place in Christine’s bedroom. What parallelism do we note in comparing this shot to the first one in the sequence?
3.

What important theme(s) does Renoir begin to develop in this excerpt?