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Partie De Campagne (Il fiore e la violenza)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Finally reIeased in 1946, ten years after it was made, Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne was hailed as an unfinished masterpiece. Since then, his masterly adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it is now considered by many to be Renoir’s best-Ioved film.
On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl Ieaves her famiIy and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an alI-too-brief romance. Shot on Iocation on the banks of two smaII tributaries of the Seine, Renoir’s sensuous tribute to the countryside – and to the river – has seIdom been surpassed.
ln its bittersweet lyricism, 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 campagne seems to distilI the essence of alI that is most personal of Renoir’s art.
Special Features:
Restored in 2K and presented in High DefinitionAudio commentary by film historian PhiIip KempUn tournage a Ia campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compiIation of outtakes from the film Screen testsOther extras TBC |
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