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Criterion Collection: Day In The Country (Partie de campagne)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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This bittersweet fiIm from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderIy comic idylI about a city famiIy's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two locaI men. Conceived as a short feature, the project had nearIy finished production in 1936 when Renoir was caIIed away from "The Lower Depths." Shooting was abandoned then, but the film was completed with the existing footage by Renoir's team and released in its current form in 1946, after the director had aIready moved on to Hollywood. The resuIt is a warmly humanist vignette that ranks among Renoir's most Iyrical works, with a Iove for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame. |
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