Rent A Day in the Country (1946)
3.9 of 5 from 123 ratings
0h 39min
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- Synopsis:
Finally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne was hailed as an 'unfinished masterpiece'. Since then, his masterly adaptation on a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-loved film. On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside - and to the river - has seldom been surpassed. In its bitter-sweet lyricism, its tenderness and poetic feel for nature, its tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, 'Partie De Campagne' seems to distil the essence of all that is most personal of Renoir's art. - Actors:
- Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello, Jacques B. Brunius, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir, Pierre Lestringuez, Georges Bataille, Jacques Becker, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alain Renoir
- Directors:
- Jean Renoir
- Producers:
- Pierre Braunberger
- Writers:
- Jean Renoir, Guy de Maupassant
- Aka:
- Partie De Campagne
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of French Poetic Realism, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Jean Renoir
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/09/2023
- Run Time:
- 41 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by film historian and critic Philip Kemp (2003)
- Un Tournage a la campagne (1994, 89 mins): a selection of the film's outtakes held at La Cinematheque frangaise, compiled by filmmaker Alain Fleischer as part of celebrations for the centenary of Jean Renoir's birth
- Screen Tests (1936, 9 mins): a selection of screen tests shot in June 1936, assembled by Claudine Kaufmann
- Jean Renoir Lecture (1963, 89 mins): an audio recording of a lecture and Q&A given by Jean Renoir at the BFI's National Film Theatre
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Reviews (1) of A Day in the Country
Rent this one, if you love France - A Day in the Country review by SoniaGee
This film takes us back a few years, but has elements of the charm of French Life as it always has been.
I have holidayed in France many times, over the years so much of the story was typically like I saw it.
I was surprised that I am the first to write a few words, as I thought it completely charming........I watched
all the extra takes --and background too.
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