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.

In Paris, Maxime Saccard visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée.

Renée tells Maxime that she married Alexandre when she was pregnant following an unhappy love affair; the child was stillborn and the passion between the two has faded.

Renée returns from Switzerland to find Alexandre holding a ball celebrating Maxime's engagement to Anne.

He described the book as "about high society in Paris with a rather serious background, since it likens dogs turning on a deer in a hunt to people.

"[3] "I am making no attempt to give the wide sociological picture that Zola did", added Vadim.

The way you feel when you learn to speak a foreign language and find you can say things you wouldn't dare say in English.

Critics praised the cinematography by Claude Renoir, but called the film's story and dialogue trite.

[16] However the Los Angeles Times called it Vadim's "best film since Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the finest of Miss Fonda's career...

"[17] The English speaking version was released on VHS by Video Treasures and Media Home Entertainment in the late 1980s.

La Curée, the somewhat shorter French-language cut, came out on DVD in 2003, though its jacket cover misleadingly displays the title applicable to the English version.