A Day in the Country 1946 1080p GBR Blu-ray AVC LPCM 2 0-NoGroup
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love to a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Year: 1936
Duration: 40 min
Release date: Wednesday 8th May 1946
Genre: Short, Drama, Romance
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Stars:
Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Disc Title: Partie de campagne
Disc Label: PARTIE_DE_CAMPAGNE_BFI_BD
Disc Size: 45,663,123,301 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00000.MPLS
Size: 13,439,677,824 bytes
Length: 0:40:34.000
Total Bitrate: 44.17 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 37513 kbps / 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: French / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: English / 36.554 kbps
Finally released in 1946, ten years after it was made, Jean Renoir&s Partie de campagne was hailed as an unfinished masterpiece. Since then, his masterly adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it is now considered by many to be Renoir&s best-loved film.
On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, Renoir&s sensuous tribute to the countryside – and to the river – has seldom been surpassed.
In its bittersweet lyricism, its tenderness and poetic feel for nature, its tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, Partie de campagne seems to distil the essence of all that is most personal of Renoir&s art.
Extras:
Restored in 2K and presented in High Definition
Archive audio commentary by film historian and critic Philip Kemp (2003)
Un tournage à la campagne (1994, 89 mins): a selection from the outtakes held at the Cinémathèque française, compiled by filmmaker Alain Fleischer as part of the celebrations of the centenary of Jean Renoir&s birth
Screen tests (1936): a selection of screen tests shot in June 1936, assembled by Claudine Kaufmann
Jean Renoir Lecture (1963): an audio recording of a lecture and Q&A given by Jean Renoir at the BFI&s National Film Theatre
