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Title: Partie De Campagne
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 25/08/2003
Genre: Foreign Languages & EFL
Actors: Jean Renoir, Gabrielle Fontan, Georges Saint-Saens, Jeanne Marken, Jacques Borel, Paul Temps, Marguerite Renoir, Pierre Lestringuez
Director: Jean Renoir
Audio Language: French
Runtime: 39 minutes
Region Code: Region 2
Studio: BFI
Subtitle Language: English
Certificate: PG
Description: 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 distill the essence of all that is most personal of Renoir's art.

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