Partie de campagne

Infobox_film | name = Partie de campagne


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director = Jean Renoir
writer = Jean Renoir
starring = Sylvia Bataille
Georges D'Arnoux
Jane Marken
André Gabriello
Jacques B. Brunius
Paul Temps
producer = Pierre Brauenberger
released = May 5, 1946
runtime = 40 min.
language = French
imdb_id = 0028445

"Partie de campagne" (English title: "A Day in the Country") is a film written and directed by the French auteur Jean Renoir in 1936. It chronicles a love affair over a single summer afternoon in 1860, along the banks of the Seine.cite web | author=Armstrong, Richard | title=Partie de campagne | work=The Film Journal | url=http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue7/partie.html | accessdate=2007-01-06] The film is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoir's father Auguste Renoir.cite web | title=Partie de campagne | work=British Film Institute | url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/campagne/ | accessdate=2007-01-06] Future star directors Jacques Becker and Luchino Visconti worked as Renoir's assistant directors. [cite web | title=Partie de campagne | work=IMDb | url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028445/combined | accessdate=2007-01-06]

Partie de campagne was shot in July, soon after France had elected the Popular Front government, and employers had negotiated the Matignon agreement, providing wage increases, 40-hour weeks, trade union rights, paid holidays and improved social services. [cite web | author=Leahy, James | title=Jean Renoir | work=Senses of Cinema | url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/renoir.html | accessdate=2007-01-06] The film was not released until 1946, ten years after it was shot. Renoir never finished the filming due to weather problems, but the producer, Pierre Brauenberger, turned the material into a release after World War II.

Plot

Monsieur Dufour (André Gabriello), a shop-owner from Paris, takes his family to spend a day in the country, where they meet two young men, Henri (Georges D'Arnoux) and Rodolphe (Jacques B. Brunius). While Dufour and his young daughter's fiancé, Anatolé (Paul Temps), go fishing, Madame Dufour (Jane Marken), his wife, and Henriette (Sylvia Bataille), his daughter, go off with the two strangers. Madame Dufour enjoys a care-free fling with Rodolphe, and Henriette and Henri row to a secluded island and engage in a romance.

References

External links

*imdb title|0028445
* [http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue7/partie.html"Partie de campagne" at The Film Journal]