A day in the country

A day in the country Partie de campagne

DVD - 2015

A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.

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Subjects
Picnics > France > Drama.
Families > France > Drama.
Mothers and daughters > France > Drama.
Melodrama.
Romance films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Short films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Romance films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Short films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2015]
Language
French
English
Corporate Author
Panthéon-Production
Corporate Author
Panthéon-Production (production company)
Other Authors
Jean Renoir, 1894-1979 (film director), Pierre Braunberger, 1905-1990 (film producer), Sylvia Bataille, 1912-1993 (actor), Georges D'arnoux (singer), Jane Marken, 1895-1976 (-), Gabriello, 1896-1975, Jacques-B Brunius, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, 1873-1959, Marguerite Renoir, Germaine Montero, Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; Full screen
Item Description
Wide screen (1.37:1).
Originally shot in 1936, but not completed or released until 1946.
Restored in 2013.
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.
Special features: Disc 1: Introduction by Jean Renoir (from 1962); The road to A day in the country (new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production). Disc 2: Pierre Braunberger on Jean Renoir (excerpt from 1979 interview with producer Pierre Braunberger about his relationship with the director and the film's production difficulties); Renoir at work (new video essay by Christopher Faulkner on Renoir's methods); Un tournage à la campagne (an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film by filmmaker Alain Fleischer); Screen tests. Insert includes an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (41 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monaural.
Production Credits
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Joseph Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.
ISBN
9781604659542
  • disc 1. Feature film
  • disc 2. Supplements.
Review by Library Journal Review

The celebrated humanist master Jean Renoir (Rules of the Game; Grand Illusion) intended his short film Day to be part of an "omnibus" that was never completed. City folk mother and daughter are romanced by a pair of locals during a rural idyll-an encounter that leaves the latter wistful years (and a marriage) later. Set alongside the Ganges, River offers a poignant meditation on British colonial life in India from the viewpoint of a preteen girl-cum-grown-up. "Day" is a tender curio; "River" runs longer and deeper. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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