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Partie de campagne = Day in the country /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2445BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 746.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]Copyright date: c2015Edition: Blu-ray editionDescription: 1 videodisc (41 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + fold-out insertedContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 160465953X
Other title:
  • Container title: Day in the country
Uniform titles:
  • Partie de campagne (Motion picture : 1936)
Related works:
  • Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893. Partie de campagne. Motion picture adaptation of (work)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .P3474 2015
Production 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.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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00137 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050275165

Originally shot in 1936, but not completed or released until 1946.

Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.

Special features: Intoduction 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); 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 a 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.

Blu-ray; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; uncompressed monaural; Region A.

French dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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