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Partie De Campagne
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![](/rcimages/rc97big.jpg) (DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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PARTlE DE CAMPAGNE
A fiIm by Jean Renoir
FinaIly reIeased in 1946, ten years after it was shot, Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne was haiIed as an unfinished masterpiece. Since then, his masterIy adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-loved film.
On an idylIic country picnic, a young girI leaves her famiIy and fiancé for a whiIe, and succumbs to an alI-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two smaII tributaries of the Seine, - and to the river has seldom been surpassed.
In a bitter-sweet lyricism, its tenderness and poetic feel for nature, its toIerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and Iove, Partie de champagne seems to distil the essence of aIl that is most personal to Renoir's art.
DVD extras include commentary by film historian PhiIip Kemp, a director's biography and extra materiaI from the Cinémathèque Française (discarded takes and screen tests)
France | 1936 | bIack & white | French Ianguage with EngIish subtitles | 39 minutes + 42 minutes extra materiaI | Academy Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD |
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