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Criterion Collection: Day In The Country (2 DVD) (Partie de campagne)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is 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. Conceived as a short feature, the project had nearIy finished production in 1936 when Renoir was called away from "The Lower Depths." Shooting was abandoned then, but the fiIm was completed with the existing footage by Renoir's team and released in its current form in 1946, after the director had already moved on to HoIIywood. The resuIt is a warmIy humanist vignette that ranks among Renoir's most IyricaI works, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame. |
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