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Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country)
September 18, 2025 at 7 PM CT on Zoom
Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, 1936) Directed by Jean Renoir
NB Jean Renoir a adapté la nouvelle de Guy de Maupassant Une partie de campagne (1881).
Par une torride journée d’été, la famille Dufour quitte Paris pour Bezons-sur-Seine. Monsieur Dufour, accompagné de sa femme, sa belle mère, sa fille et son commis, s’arrête dans une charmante auberge en bord de Seine. Tandis que le déjeuner sur l’herbe est dressé, deux canotiers viennent à leur rencontre. La chaleur et le vin aidant, il est décidé que Madame Dufour et sa fille, Henriette, iraient faire une promenade en yole sur les eaux du fleuve en compagnie des deux jeunes hommes. Lorsque les bateaux quittent la rive, le ciel se charge de gris et annonce l’orage à venir…, https://www.dvdclassik.com/critique/une-partie-de-campagne-renoir
The film was written and directed by Jean Renoir; inspired by a short story by famed French writer Guy de Maupassant. And the film is short, much like its source material; a bourgeoisie and slightly silly family from Paris makes a day trip out to the country, stopping at a small village along the Seine, and a couple of the local bachelors lure the mother and daughter in the party away for a couple of hours … – which has an unexpected and lingering effect on the younger woman. https://moviecrashcourse.com/2019/02/26/a-day-in-the-country-1936/
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