Blu-ray, DVD Release: A Day in the Country

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 10, 2015
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion

DayInCountry_original_optThis bittersweet 1936 work A Day in the Country from Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game), based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is 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.

Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette  in A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.

Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of A Day in the Country are presented in French with English subtitles and contain the following features:

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
• New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
• New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
• Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
• Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
• Screen tests
• New English subtitle translation
• An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.