A Day in the Country (1946)

Original title

Partie de campagne

Directed by

Jean Renoir

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

40 min

Rated

15

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 218 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family visits the French countryside for a summer afternoon in 1860. Along the river, a young woman begins a brief romance with a stranger.

romanticbittersweetleisurelypoignantlyricalsunlitintimate

What happens

Partie de campagne (pronounced [paʁ.ti də kɑ̃.paɲ]; English: A Day in the Country) is a French featurette that was written and directed by Jean Renoir in 1936, but not edited and released until 1946. It is based on the short story "Une partie de campagne" (1881) by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoir's father, the renowned painter Auguste Renoir. The film chronicles a love affair over a summer afternoon in 1860, along the banks of the Seine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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