{"product_id":"jean-renoir-partie-de-campagne","title":"Jean Renoir - Partie de campagne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn a country picnic, a young girl leaves her family for a while and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance in Jean Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePartie de campagne\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(A Day in the Country)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas finally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, it was hailed as an 'unfinished masterpiece'. Since then,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean Renoir's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emasterly adaptation of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, running at just under 40 minutes, has grown in reputation to the point where it has become one of his best-loved films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiance for a while, and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside – and to the river – has seldom been surpassed. Water, and the movement of rivers in particular, flows like a constant theme through Renoir's films but nowhere in all his work is the river more central to the action than in Partie de campagne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor Guy de Maupassant was a friend of Renoir's father, the Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir. The film sticks closely to his original story, although the tone is altered and the characters are expanded. The main change – imposed on the filmmakers by the disastrous weather during the course of the shoot – is that the story is set during a searing heatwave, while the film's events take place on a fickle day where brief bursts of sunshine give way to clouds and finally to a downpour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film was originally intended to run some 50 minutes. However, shooting was constantly delayed by the rain and eventually Renoir quit the production to start his next film.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe producer,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePierre Braunberger, was left with the incomplete footage. He considered turning the film into a full-length feature, and commissioned an expanded script, but Renoir refused to have anything to do with it. Not until after the war was Braunberger able to turn the film into a viable release, when it was reconstructed with two intertitles to replace the missing scenes, and a score was commissioned from Joseph Kosma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":54799229059414,"sku":"MRM-07239","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/Screenshot-2026-07-23-at-13.03.32.png?v=1784808239","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/jean-renoir-partie-de-campagne","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}