A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)

A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day out in the country, which includes having a picnic. While taking a walk after the picnic, they encounter a group of officious looking men who order them to go to a small clearing. Although there is no direct threat and the picnickers are not scared, they nonetheless feel the need to do what the men say. The men, led by one called Rudolph, set the rules of "the game". Ultimately, the picnickers learn that Rudolph was supposed to invite them to a party nearby. Much like the game, the party's host sets the rules for the party to which the picnickers and all the other guests must abide. Order in the eyes of the host seems to be paramount. Although the picnickers and the other guests enjoy many aspects of the party, some just do not want to be there, but such thinking cannot be tolerated.—Huggo