DVD
A day in the country
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken, André Gabriello, Jacques Brunius, Paul Temps.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (41 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (unpaged : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1936.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; intoduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962 ; The road to "A day in the country," a new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production ; Renoir at work, a new video essay by Faulkner on Renoir's methods ; Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film ; interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979 ; screen tests ; new English subtitle translation.