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Still Life

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sound engineer was Joseph de Bretagne. Music used in the film includes Mozart's Three German Dances, Monsigny's ‘Le Déserteur,’ Louis Byrec, Léon Garnier and Eugène Rimbault's ‘En Revenant de la Revue,’ Strauss's ‘Die Fledermaus,’ Saint-Saëns's ‘Danse Macabre,’ Chopin's ‘Minute Waltz,’ and Scotto's ‘À Barbizon.’ The music was arranged by Joseph Kosma and Roger Désormière.

The film's set designers Eugène Lourié and Max Douy built one of the most expensive sets in French film history at the Joinville Studio. According to Douy they were based on the script and were not reproductions of the interior of Chateau de la Ferté-Saint-Aubin, where exterior scenes were shot. The music boxes used in the film were borrowed from several sources and some are now in a museum in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Renoir thought the musical organ scene and Dalio's performance in it was the best scene he had ever filmed. He shot the scene several times before he was satisfied with it. The costumes for the film were designed by Coco Chanel.

Since its restoration, ‘The Rules of the Game’ has come to be regarded by many film critics and directors as one of the greatest films of all time. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 97% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 9.50/10. The website's consensus reads; ‘Its genius escaped many