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| director = [[Roger Vadim]]
| director = [[Roger Vadim]]
|producer = Mario Sarago<br>Roger Vadim
| screenplay = [[Jean Cau (writer)|Jean Cau]]
| screenplay = [[Jean Cau (writer)|Jean Cau]]
| based on = {{Based on|''[[La Curée]]''|[[Émile Zola]]}}
| based on = {{Based on|''[[La Curée]]''|[[Émile Zola]]}}
| starring = [[Jane Fonda]]<br />[[Michel Piccoli]]<br />[[Peter McEnery]]
| starring = [[Jane Fonda]]<br />[[Michel Piccoli]]<br />[[Peter McEnery]]
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| cinematography: [[Claude Renoir]]
| producer = Paris Film Productions<br />Panitalia
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|editor = [[Victoria Mercanton]]
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| country = France, Italy
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|music = [[Jean Bouchéty]], [[Jean-Pierre Bourtayre]]
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| studio = Les Films Marceau (Paris), Cocinor - Comptoir cinématographique du Nord, Mega Film (Rome)
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|distributor = [[Royal Films International]]<br>Columbia (US)
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| country = France<br>Italy
| genre = Drama
| genre = Drama
| runtime = 98 minutes
| runtime = 98 minutes
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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
Renée Saccard ([[Jane Fonda]]) has married an older, wealthy man, Alexandre Saccard ([[Michel Piccoli]]), in a marriage of convenience, but soon begins an affair with Alexandre's son from a previous marriage, Maxime ([[Peter McEnery]]). When Alexandre finds out, he is enraged, and tragedy ends up befalling all three of them.<ref name="nyt" />
Canadian Renée Saccard ([[Jane Fonda]]) has married an older, wealthy man, Alexandre Saccard ([[Michel Piccoli]]), in a marriage of convenience, but soon begins an affair with Alexandre's son from a previous marriage, Maxime ([[Peter McEnery]]).


When Alexandre finds out, he is enraged, and tragedy ends up befalling all three of them.<ref name="nyt" />
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==Reception==
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''The Game Is Over'' received mostly negative reviews. Critics praised the cinematography by [[Claude Renoir]], but called the film's story and dialogue trite. ''[[New York Times]]'' reviewer [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote that the film "has absolutely nothing in it but fancy clothes and decor",<ref name="nyt" /> while critic [[Roger Ebert]] called it "a tedious and ridiculous film of great physical beauty".<ref name="ebert">{{cite web |title=The Game Is Over Movie Review |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-game-is-over-1967 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |date=April 14, 1967}}</ref>

==Crew==
* Director: [[Roger Vadim]]
* Screenplay: [[Jean Cau (writer)|Jean Cau]]
* Assistant directors: [[Francis Girod]], [[Jean-Michel Lacor]], [[Roger Tellier]]
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* Cinematography: [[Claude Renoir]]
* Sound: [[Antoine Petitjean]]
* Set design: [[Jean André]]
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* Editing: [[Victoria Mercanton]]
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* Music: [[Jean Bouchéty]], [[Jean-Pierre Bourtayre]]
* Costumes: [[Tanine Autré]]
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* Production: Les Films Marceau (Paris), Cocinor - Comptoir cinématographique du Nord, Mega Film (Rome)
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* Distributor: [[Royal Films International]]


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Simone Valère]]: Mme. Sernet (uncredited)
* [[Simone Valère]]: Mme. Sernet (uncredited)
* [[Dominique Zardi]]: Guest (uncredited)
* [[Dominique Zardi]]: Guest (uncredited)
==Production==
The movie was one of a series Vadim made based on a classic text. He described the book as "about high society in Paris with a rather serious background, since it likens dogs turning on a deer in a hunt to people."<ref>Vadim Is Frank On, Off Screen
Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 20 July 1965: C8. </ref>

Vadim and Jane Fonda married immediately prior to making the film.<ref>Producer Weds Jane Fonda In Ceremony in Las Vegas
New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 15 Aug 1965: 70. </ref>

It was only the second film performance of [[Tina Aumont]].<ref>Hollywood Family--2nd Generation
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 15 Mar 1966: c10. </ref>

The movie was shot in both English and French versions. Fonda acted in French and English. "I said it was hard enough to shoot anything once," she said. "But doing it twice, I found, seemed perfectly natural.<ref name="monitor"/>

"I love working in French," she added. "I feel a certain kind of freedom. The way you feel when you learn to speak a foreign language and find you can say things you wouldn't dare say in English."<ref name="jane">Here's What Happened to Baby Jane
By GERALD JONAS. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 22 Jan 1967: 91. </ref>

Peter McEnery did not speak French so when shooting the French version he had to learn his lines phonetically and a French actor was then dubbed in for him.<ref name="monitor">It's the doing she likes: Suggestion of reality
By Kimmis Hendrick. The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file) [Boston, Mass] 17 Feb 1967: 4. </ref>

Fonda appears in some nude scenes which were explicit for the time. She said later about shooting these:
<blockquote>You have to be relaxed, free. Pornography begins when things become self-conscious. But the set was cleared and closed, and I knew Vadim would protect me in the cutting room. Months later we discovered that a photographer had hidden in the rafters and taken pictures which he sold to ''Playboy''. It rocked me, it really did. It's a simple matter of breaking and entering, and invasion of privacy.<ref name="jane"/></blockquote>

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==Reception==
The movie was a solid box office success in France, where it received mostly good reviews. When it screened at the [[Venice Film Festival]], however, critical reception was hostile.<ref>A Ball in Venice Competes With Films for Excitement
New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 09 Sep 1966: 41. </ref>

When the movie was screened commercially in Italy later, all copies were seized on the grounds of obscenity. The Italian producer and 23 cinema owners were charged.<ref>Jane Fonda Film Seized in Italy
New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 22 Nov 1966: 33. </ref><ref>Producer Indicted in Italy For 'Obscene' Vadim Film
New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 20 Dec 1966: 58. </ref> Vadim and Fonda were not charged.<ref>Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda Face Obscenity Charge
Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) [Chicago, Ill] 26 Apr 1967: b5. </ref>
===US Release===
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''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. ''[[New York Times]]'' reviewer [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote that the film "has absolutely nothing in it but fancy clothes and decor",<ref name="nyt" /> while critic [[Roger Ebert]] called it "a tedious and ridiculous film of great physical beauty".<ref name="ebert">{{cite web |title=The Game Is Over Movie Review |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-game-is-over-1967 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |date=April 14, 1967}}</ref> The ''Washington Post'' called it "this deliciously false and phony picture."<ref>Jane's Back; So Is Sandra
By Richard L. Coe. The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973) [Washington, D.C] 08 Apr 1967: B7. </ref>

However the ''Los Angeles Times'' called it Vadim's "best film since ''Les Liasions Dangereuses'' and the finest of Miss Fonda's career... Rarely has Vadim's style been so expressive."<ref>'Game Is Over' and Vadim a Winner
Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 20 Jan 1967: c6. </ref>



==References==
==References==

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The Game Is Over
Directed byRoger Vadim
Screenplay byJean Cau
Produced byMario Sarago
Roger Vadim
StarringJane Fonda
Michel Piccoli
Peter McEnery
Music byJean Bouchéty, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Production
companies
Les Films Marceau (Paris), Cocinor - Comptoir cinématographique du Nord, Mega Film (Rome)
Distributed byRoyal Films International
Columbia (US)
Release date
1966
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
Box office2,558,254 admissions (France)[1]

The Game Is Over (original title La Curée, "The Kill") is a 1966 French-Italian French language film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli and Peter McEnery. The film is a modern-day adaptation of the 1871-72 novel La Curée by Émile Zola.[2]

Synopsis

Canadian Renée Saccard (Jane Fonda) has married an older, wealthy man, Alexandre Saccard (Michel Piccoli), in a marriage of convenience, but soon begins an affair with Alexandre's son from a previous marriage, Maxime (Peter McEnery).

When Alexandre finds out, he is enraged, and tragedy ends up befalling all three of them.[2]

Cast

Production

The movie was one of a series Vadim made based on a classic text. He described the book as "about high society in Paris with a rather serious background, since it likens dogs turning on a deer in a hunt to people."[3]

Vadim and Jane Fonda married immediately prior to making the film.[4]

It was only the second film performance of Tina Aumont.[5]

The movie was shot in both English and French versions. Fonda acted in French and English. "I said it was hard enough to shoot anything once," she said. "But doing it twice, I found, seemed perfectly natural.[6]

"I love working in French," she added. "I feel a certain kind of freedom. The way you feel when you learn to speak a foreign language and find you can say things you wouldn't dare say in English."[7]

Peter McEnery did not speak French so when shooting the French version he had to learn his lines phonetically and a French actor was then dubbed in for him.[6]

Fonda appears in some nude scenes which were explicit for the time. She said later about shooting these:

You have to be relaxed, free. Pornography begins when things become self-conscious. But the set was cleared and closed, and I knew Vadim would protect me in the cutting room. Months later we discovered that a photographer had hidden in the rafters and taken pictures which he sold to Playboy. It rocked me, it really did. It's a simple matter of breaking and entering, and invasion of privacy.[7]

Reception

The movie was a solid box office success in France, where it received mostly good reviews. When it screened at the Venice Film Festival, however, critical reception was hostile.[8]

When the movie was screened commercially in Italy later, all copies were seized on the grounds of obscenity. The Italian producer and 23 cinema owners were charged.[9][10] Vadim and Fonda were not charged.[11]

US Release

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. New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther wrote that the film "has absolutely nothing in it but fancy clothes and decor",[2] while critic Roger Ebert called it "a tedious and ridiculous film of great physical beauty".[12] The Washington Post called it "this deliciously false and phony picture."[13]

However the Los Angeles Times called it Vadim's "best film since Les Liasions Dangereuses and the finest of Miss Fonda's career... Rarely has Vadim's style been so expressive."[14]


References

  1. ^ Box office information for Roger Vadim films at Box Office Story
  2. ^ a b c Crowther, Bosley (January 10, 1967). "Movie Review: The Game Is Over (1966)". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Vadim Is Frank On, Off Screen Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 20 July 1965: C8.
  4. ^ Producer Weds Jane Fonda In Ceremony in Las Vegas New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 15 Aug 1965: 70.
  5. ^ Hollywood Family--2nd Generation Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 15 Mar 1966: c10.
  6. ^ a b It's the doing she likes: Suggestion of reality By Kimmis Hendrick. The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file) [Boston, Mass] 17 Feb 1967: 4.
  7. ^ a b Here's What Happened to Baby Jane By GERALD JONAS. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 22 Jan 1967: 91.
  8. ^ A Ball in Venice Competes With Films for Excitement New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 09 Sep 1966: 41.
  9. ^ Jane Fonda Film Seized in Italy New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 22 Nov 1966: 33.
  10. ^ Producer Indicted in Italy For 'Obscene' Vadim Film New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 20 Dec 1966: 58.
  11. ^ Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda Face Obscenity Charge Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) [Chicago, Ill] 26 Apr 1967: b5.
  12. ^ Ebert, Roger (April 14, 1967). "The Game Is Over Movie Review".
  13. ^ Jane's Back; So Is Sandra By Richard L. Coe. The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973) [Washington, D.C] 08 Apr 1967: B7.
  14. ^ 'Game Is Over' and Vadim a Winner Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 20 Jan 1967: c6.

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