A Day In The Country (Criterion Collection) (1936) On DVD

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Actor: Sylvia Bataille, Georges Darnoux, Jane Marken, Gabriello , Paul Temps
Director: Jean Renoir
Genre: Foreign
Year: 1936
Studio:   Criterion
Length: 40
Released:   February 10, 2015
Rating:   Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:   Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

This bittersweet work from Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game), based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is 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. Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.

Additional Features:

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
• New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
• New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
• Un tournage à la champagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
• Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
• Screen tests
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

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