Partie De campagne Blu-Ray

Partie De Campagne (Blu-ray)

Director: Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne was released in 1946, 10 years after it was filmed, and was hailed as one of the great unfinished masterpieces. Since then, this masterful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story has grown in stature to the point where it is now considered one of Renoir's most beloved films.During a picnic in the countryside, a young woman leaves her family and fiancé for a moment and embarks on a brief romance. With its bittersweet lyricism, tenderness, poetic sense of nature, tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions, and poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, the film seems to distill the essence of everything that is most personal in Renoir's art. Partie de campagne was digitized and restored by Les Films du Panthéon in collaboration with Les Films du Jeudi and La Cinémathèque française, with support from the CNC and contributions from the Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain (DGA-MPA-SACEM-WGAW).

Extras

Restored in 2K and presented in High Definition

Audio commentary from the archives by film historian and critic Philip Kemp (2003)

Un tournage à la campagne (1994, 89 min): a selection of outtakes from La Cinémathèque française, compiled by filmmaker Alain Fleischer as part of the celebration of the centenary of Jean Renoir's birth

Screen Tests (1936, 9 min): a selection of screen tests recorded in June 1936, compiled by Claudine Kaufmann

Jean Renoir Lecture (1963, 89 min): an audio recording of a lecture and Q&A session given by Jean Renoir at the BFI's National Film Theatre. First pressing limited to 2,000 copies. Illustrated booklet with new essays by Barry Nevin and Pasquale Iannone, as well as a biography of Jean Renoir by Philip Kemp.This lyrical tragedy is considered one of Renoir's finest... visually recreating the Impressionist period." --Pauline Kael

"Witty and sensual, it's pure magic." --Geoff Andrew