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A day in the country = Partie de campagne
Uniform Title
Partie de campagne (Motion picture : 1936)
Title
A day in the country = Partie de campagne / Janus Films ; Pierre Braunberger présente un film de Jean Renoir ; metteur en scène, Jean Renoir ; Panthéon-Production.
ISBN
9781604659542
1604659548
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (41 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Medium
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Wide screen (1.37:1).
Originally shot in 1936, but not completed or released until 1946.
Restored in 2013.
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.
Special features: Disc 1: Introduction by Jean Renoir (from 1962); The road to A day in the country (new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production). Disc 2: Pierre Braunberger on Jean Renoir (excerpt from 1979 interview with producer Pierre Braunberger about his relationship with the director and the film's production difficulties); Renoir at work (new video essay by Christopher Faulkner on Renoir's methods); Un tournage à la campagne (an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film by filmmaker Alain Fleischer); Screen tests. Insert includes an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez.
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Partie de campagne
Container title: Day in the country
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
February 27, 2018
Series
The Criterion Collection ; 746
Credits
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.
Cast
Sylvia Bataille, Georges Saint-Saens, Jeanne Marken, Gabriello, Jacques Borel, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir.
System details note
DVD; NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monaural.
Contents
disc 1. Feature film
disc 2. Supplements.
Videorecording number
CC2446D The Criterion Collection
CC2446D-1 The Criterion Collection
CC2446D-2 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films - France.
Foreign language films - French.
Romance films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Short films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Romance films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films - France.
Foreign language films - French.
Also listed under
Panthéon-Production, production company.
Janus Films, film distributor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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