A Day in the Country - Partie de campagne (1946) (Criterion Collection)

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This bittersweet work from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is 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. Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir`s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.