Partie de campagne (1936/I)

Director:

Jean Renoir

Writers:

Jean Renoir (writer)
Guy de Maupassant (short story)

Release Date:

8 May 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Short | Romance

Plot:

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love to a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Short Story | Critically Acclaimed | River | Cult Favorite | Riverside

Cast

Sylvia Bataille	...	Henriette
Georges D'Arnoux	...	Henri (as Georges Saint-Saens)
Jane Marken	...	Madame Dufour (as Jeanne Marken)
André Gabriello	...	Monsieur Dufour (as Gabriello)
Jacques B. Brunius	...	Rodolphe (as Jacques Borel)
Paul Temps	...	Anatole
Gabrielle Fontan	...	La grand' mère / Grandmother
Jean Renoir	...	Père Poulain / Uncle Poulain
Marguerite Renoir	...	La servante / Waitress
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pierre Lestringuez	...	Un vieux curé / Old priest

Also Known As:

A Day in the Country

Runtime:

40 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Hong Kong:I

Filming Locations:

Bords du Loing, Montigny-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne, France

Company:

Panthéon Productions

Trivia:

Cameo: [Georges Bataille]in the procession of priests and seminarians

Movie Connections:

Featured in Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993) (TV)

Romantisized rape scene fantasy of a Man

I'm quite surprised at the uniform comments so far to this film. It is an interesting film I admit, and many film-scientists have analyzed and praised it, BUT: Isn't the "peak" of this story a rape scene? The daughter obviously plays an innocent virgin and being on a swing or in a boat is all she wants. Her mother on the other hand is quite "deprived" for her allusive request to her heavy husband to quickly go together behind the barn, gets turned "down". But here we have 2 other bored youngsters: One is a show-off Casanova, the other (as it turns out later) only seemingly disinterested in the game of love. This game is exemplified through the (male) sport of fishing. Now the climax is very skillfully displayed through the water and the upcoming storm metaphor, but the foreplay is quite politically incorrect: Numerous "touch-and-kiss-attacks" from the part of the guy and the numerous "shoving-aways" by the girl doesn't seem to stop him or take "No" for an answer. Eventually of course, she gives in, and many years later she tells him that it was and ever will be the happiest moment of her life. It smells like macho fantasy to me, where No from a girl means Yes! and that especially virgins need to be forced into the introduction of sexual pleasures. Well, possible, but still, what if not?