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The Game Is Over (1966)

The Game Is Over poster
Original title
La Curée
Directed by
Roger Vadim
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
R18+
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Jane Fonda plays a young wife stuck in a loveless marriage to a wealthy older man. She falls into a dangerous affair with her stepson, leading to escalating tensions and destruction.

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What happens

The Game Is Over (original title La Curée, "The Kill") is a 1966 drama film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery, and Michel Piccoli. The film is a modern-day adaptation of the 1871-72 novel La Curée by Émile Zola. Two different versions of the film were made and released, one in English, the other in French. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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