A scathing critique of the haut-bourgeois portraying their moral callousness as World War II impends, the passions of servants and aristocrats dangerously collide at a French chateau. Cloaked as a comedy, Jean Renoir cements his own legacy in art history alongside his father, Pierre-Auguste. Initially a failure, and banned from the wartime French government as “having an undesirable influence over the young”, it has since been regarded as one of the best films ever made.