Title: Day in the country/
Authors: Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919; Lestringuez, Pierre.; Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.; Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990.; Bataille, Sylvia, 1912-1993.; Darnous, Georges.; Marken, Jane.; Temps, Paul,; Visconti, Luchino, 1906-1976.; Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.; Pantheon Productions.
Publisher: Panthéon Productions,
Year: 1946
Subjects: Maupassant, Guy de, Film adaptations.; Short films France.; Love Drama; France Social life and customs Drama.
Abstract: A Parisian merchant takes his wife, his daughter, Henriette, and her fiancé for a Sunday excursion into the country. In a restaurant by the river Marne, the mother and daughter meet two men who take them up the river and seduce them. This unfinished masterpiece was shot in 1936 , but never completed. It was eventually edited and released as a short feature ten years later. The film reveals Jean Renoir's connection to the spirit of the Impressionists and the atmosphere and society of 1880's France. Renoir understood this period intimately through his own connection to the Impressionists through his father the painter Pierre Auguste Renoir. The young Luchino Visconti worked on this film, along with the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Filmed in Bords du Loing, Montigny-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne, France.