Partie de campagne
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| Directed by | Jean Renoir |
| Produced by | Pierre Braunberger |
| Written by | Jean Renoir |
| Starring | Sylvia Bataille Georges D'Arnoux Jane Marken André Gabriello Jacques B. Brunius Paul Temps |
| Release date(s) | 5 May 1946 |
| Running time | 40 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Partie de campagne (English title: A Day in the Country) is a 1936 French film written and directed by Jean Renoir, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. It chronicles a love affair over a single summer afternoon in 1860, along the banks of the Seine.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Monsieur Dufour (André Gabriello), a shop-owner from Paris, takes his family to spend a day in the country, where they meet two young men, Henri (Georges D'Arnoux) and Rodolphe (Jacques B. Brunius). While Dufour and his young daughter's fiancé, Anatole (Paul Temps), go fishing, Madame Dufour (Jane Marken), his wife, and Henriette (Sylvia Bataille), his daughter, go off with the two strangers. Madame Dufour enjoys a care-free fling with Rodolphe, and Henriette and Henri row to a secluded island and engage in a romance.[1]
[edit] Cast
- Sylvia Bataille as Henriette
- Georges D'Arnoux as Henri
- Jane Marken as Madame Dufour
- André Gabriello as Monsieur Dufour
- Jacques B. Brunius as Rodolphe
- Paul Temps as Anatole
- Gabrielle Fontan as Grandmother
- Jean Renoir as Uncle Poulain
- Marguerite Renoir as Waitress
[edit] Production
The film is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoir's father Auguste Renoir.[2] Future leading directors Jacques Becker and Luchino Visconti worked as Renoir's assistant directors.[3] Partie de campagne was shot in July, soon after France had elected the Popular Front government, and employers had negotiated the Matignon agreement, providing wage increases, 40-hour weeks, trade union rights, paid holidays and improved social services.[4]
[edit] Release
The film was not released until 1946, ten years after it was shot. Renoir never finished the filming due to weather problems, but the producer, Pierre Braunberger, turned the material into a release after World War II.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Armstrong, Richard. "Partie de campagne". The Film Journal. http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue7/partie.html. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
- ^ a b "Partie de campagne". British Film Institute. http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/campagne/. Retrieved 2007-01-06.[dead link]
- ^ "Partie de campagne". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028445/combined. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
- ^ Leahy, James. "Jean Renoir". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on 2007-01-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20070105143132/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/renoir.html. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
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