Originally filmed in 1936, released in 1946. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant. Special features: Intoduction by Jean Renoir from 1962; new interview with Renoi scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production ; new video essay by Faulkner on Renoir's methods; Un tournage à la campagne en 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film; interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979; screen tests. Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'arnoux.
Summary:
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.
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