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My #12 is The Rules of the Game, an influential, masterfully-directed movie by Jean Renoir. The director is in top form throughout this movie, based on French aristocratic society. On the surface, Rules of the Game looks like a farce dealing with the sordid relationships of affluent socialites, but there is a darker, more guilty current running beneath the film at all times. Renoir, sitting behind the camera, is the star of the show. He uses deep focus shots to capture everything on camera at once, so that viewers can track several plotlines and developments simultaneously.