2 videodiscs (41 min.) :sd, b&w ;4 3/4 in.
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.
Originally shot in 1936, but not completed or released until 1946.
Special features: Disc 1: Intoduction by Jean Renoir (from 1962); The road to A day in the country (new interview with Renoi scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production). Disc 2: Pierre Braunberger on Jean Renoir (excerpt from 1979 interview with producer Pierre Braunberger about his relationship with the director and the film's production difficulties); Renoir at work (new video essay by Christopher Faulkner on Renoir's methods); Un tournage la campagne (an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film by filmmaker Alain Fleischer); Screen tests.
Title from container.
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.
Sylvia Bataille, Georges Saint-Saens, Jeanne Marken, Gabriello, Jacques Borel, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir.
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.
PG.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monaural.
For private home use only.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
1.Families--France--Fiction.2.Feature films.3.Foreign films--France.4.Motion pictures, French.5.Picnics--France--Fiction.6.Romance films.Dynamic Details