A Day in the Country (1936)

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A Day in the Country Blu-ray

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.

Special Features:

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production
New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir's methods
Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
Screen tests
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez