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A Day in the Country [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] ()

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Georges Darnoux, Paul Temps, Henri Cartier-Bresson

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A Day in the Country [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] - Jean Renoir
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Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country is a short and semisweet romantic vignette based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. A group of family members spend a day away from the city in the French countryside. While the men go off to fish, the mother (Jeanne Marken) has a harmless flirtation with a rural "rake," while the daughter (Sylvia Bataille) has a more serious liaison with a handsome young man (George Saint-Saens). Fourteen years later, the same family vacations at the same spot. The handsome stranger returns, hoping to renew ...

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