Outing in the country

See also: an outing in the country

Outing in the country is a film of Jean Renoir, turned during the summer 1936.

Synopsis

1860, Mr. Dufour, trading Paris IEN, comes in family to spend one day to the countryside in edge of the Seine. It stops with an inn spade-to screw at the edge of water. Rodolphe and Henri, two rowers, decide to allure Mrs Dufour and her daughter…

Comment

Turning met many vicissitudes: difficulty of the financial montage, problem of disagreements within the team, very unfavourable meteorology, involving the interruption of turning, ever taken again. The 40 minute old assembly which results from it works out nevertheless a succeeded work, in which Jean Renoir finds to open out his topics of predilection (social satire, relations with nature, in particular here with water), in an environment which seems borrowed from the painting of his/her father Auguste Renoir.

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  • not to confuse with One Sunday in the countryside of Bertrand Tavernier in 1984, nor with the Lunch on the grass of same Renoir in 1959.
  • According to Claude Beylie in his Anthology of the cinema , “ turning was stopped with the autumn 1935 . ” The film nevertheless is commonly gone back to 1936.

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