A Day in the Country -Blu-ray-

Product Description This bittersweet work 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 A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame. Additional Features BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • 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 champagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film • Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979 • Screen tests • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez