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In one role, this actor’s character asks if he should feed fish that taste like motor oil to the cats, but his coworker instead tells him to feed them to wealthy customers. The final scene of a film by this director appears directly after a poetic sequence of a storm pouring down on a river and a title card reading “Years passed, with Sundays as sad as Mondays.” This man cameoed as Pere Poulain in a film he also directed where (*) Rodolphe and Henri lust after Madame Dufour and her daughter. The camera traces the movement of a radio broadcaster who interviews an aviator for the opening shot of a different film by this director of A Day (10[1])in the Country. In another role for one of his own films, this director plays Octave, one of the attendees at a weekend gathering at Robert and Christine’s estate La Coliniere. For 10 points, what Frenchman satirized high society in films like The Rules of the Game? ■END■

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