Partie de campagne
- Sylvia Bataille: Henriette
- Darnoux Georges Henri
- Jane brands: Madame Dufour
- André Gabriello: Monsieur Dufour
- Jacques B. Brunius: Rodolphe
- Paul Temps: Anatole
- Gabrielle Fontan: grandmother
- Jean Renoir: Father Poulain
- Marguerite Renoir: waitress
An outing is a French film directed by Jean Renoir from the year 1936. Served as pattern a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Three members of the Renoir family worked on film. In addition to his wife Marguerite Renoir also occurs on in a supporting role. In addition, she was also involved in the cut and the nephew Claude Renoir served as cinematographer.
Action
Early 1880s is taking a family on a summer day a trip to the countryside. Also on the Sunday game are Madame and Monsieur Dufour, her daughter Henriette and her fiance Anatole. While men tend to sleep or the fishing, the two women learn the two young men Henri and Rodolphe know. This load mother and daughter to take a boat trip. On a secluded river island occurs between the young men and the ladies of the family to a flirt. Without hesitation, the mother surrenders her lover. The daughter feels, however, to her admirer great affection. Two years later, when Henriette has long been married, she returns to the place of romance and hits the worshipers of yore. She confesses to him that she still thinks back to the romance of yesteryear.
Criticism
"Une partie de campagne has trying to match the literary work with a lot of sensitivity. The sun, the water, the trees seem almost sensually present; here proved, among other things an art of " landscape painting " Le dejeuner at the Renoir sur l' herbe repeated later. But the atmosphere is that of Maupassant. "
" Jean Renoir's masterful adaptation of Maupassant short story, with all its melancholy and emotional intensity, the masterful art work gives the film an intense impressionistic force. "
" A country outing is the enchanting film adaptation of Maupassant short story, a work that will age just as his template. For friends of high cinematic art [ ... ] an unalloyed pleasure. "
Background
The film was made in July 1936, was elected shortly after in France, the Popular Front government. The shooting was interrupted frequently as the weather and lighting conditions were extremely difficult. Finally, Renoir broke off the shooting and the film remained incomplete. Not until 1946 chose the producer Pierre Braunsberger, zusammenzuschneiden the existing footage into a 40 - minute film with intertitles. As assistant director had the later as a director Luchino Visconti successful, Jacques Becker and Yves Allégret with the film.
The literary model, the resulting 1881 novel " Une Partie de campagne " by Guy de Maupassant, plays at a time, in Jean Renoir's father, the painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir, generally accepted, ie. Jean Renoir continued to the melancholy film "An Outing " with similar means of illumination and image design, as it is known by his father's paintings, often painted at the time when the amendment river landscapes in the environs of Paris in the style of Impressionism.