When Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country) was finally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, it was hailed as an ‘unfinished masterpiece’. Since then, Jean Renoir's masterly adaptation of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, running at just under 40 minutes, has grown in reputation to the point where it has become one of his best-loved films.
Partie de campagne (1936)
On a country picnic, a young girl leaves her family for a while and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance in Jean Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside.
- 1936 France
- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Produced by
- Pierre Braunberger
- Written by
- Jean Renoir
- Featuring
- Sylvia Bataille, Georges Darnoux, Jane Marken
- Running time
- 40 minutes
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Critics
- Mark Asch
- USA
- Claude Bertemes
- Luxembourg
- Serge Bromberg
- France
- Gian Piero Brunetta
- Italy
- John Conomos
- Australia
- Mike D'Angelo
- USA
- Hervé Dumont
- Switzerland
- Pierre Gabaston
- France
- Lautaro García Candela
- Argentina
- Ruy Gardnier
- Brazil
- Eckhard Haschen
- Germany
- Gonzalo de Lucas
- Spain
- Frédéric Maire
- Switzerland
- Eva Markovits
- France
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- Spain
- Julie Pearce
- UK
- José Quental
- Brazil
- Heather Stewart
- UK
- Catherine A. Surowiec
- UK
- Marcos Uzal
- France
- Madeline Whittle
- USA
Directors
- Guillaume Brac
- France
- Davy Chou
- France/Cambodia
- Julian Radlmaier
- Germany
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