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Partie De Campagne
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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PARTIE 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 masterly adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-Ioved film.
On an idyllic country picnic, a young girI leaves her famiIy and fiancé for a whiIe, and succumbs to an aII-too-brief romance. Shot on Iocation on the banks of two smaII tributaries of the Seine, - and to the river has seldom been surpassed.
ln a bitter-sweet Iyricism, its tenderness and poetic feeI for nature, its tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, Partie de champagne seems to distiI the essence of alI that is most personaI to Renoir's art.
DVD extras incIude commentary by fiIm historian PhiIip Kemp, a director's biography and extra material from the Cinémathèque Française (discarded takes and screen tests)
France | 1936 | bIack & white | French language with English subtitIes | 39 minutes + 42 minutes extra material | Academy Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD |
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