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.

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.

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

Ranked in The Greatest Films of All Time poll

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Davy Chou
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Julian Radlmaier
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