La partie de chasse

SYNOPSIS

On target with regard to upper-class attitudes just prior to the First World War, James Mason's penultimate feature film finds him as Sir Randolph Nettleby, the aristocratic organiser of a weekend shoot at his country mansion, where exploitation and numerous infidelities are also on the menu. Similar to Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu in its theme of a disintegrating social order, it has a cast to die for in Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin and Gordon Jackson, among others. Connoisseurs of British television drama may have seen it all before, but this still has acting class in abundance.