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Partie De Campagne
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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PARTlE DE CAMPAGNE
A film by Jean Renoir
FinalIy released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne was hailed as an unfinished masterpiece. Since then, his masterIy adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-Ioved fiIm.
On an idyIlic country picnic, a young girl Ieaves her family and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an aIl-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, - and to the river has seIdom been surpassed.
ln a bitter-sweet Iyricism, its tenderness and poetic feeI for nature, its toIerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and Iove, Partie de champagne seems to distil the essence of aIl that is most personal to Renoir's art.
DVD extras include commentary by fiIm historian PhiIip Kemp, a director's biography and extra materiaI from the Cinémathèque Française (discarded takes and screen tests)
France | 1936 | black & white | French language with EngIish subtitIes | 39 minutes + 42 minutes extra materiaI | Academy Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD |
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