A Sunday in the country

Movie
German title	A Sunday in the country
Original title	Un dimanche à la campagne
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1984
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Bertrand Tavernier
script	Colo Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier
production	Alain Sarde Bertrand Tavernier
music	Gabriel Fauré Louis Ducreux Marc Perrone Philippe Sarde
camera	Bruno de Keyzer
cut	Armand Psenny
occupation
Louis Ducreux  : Monsieur Ladmiral Michel Aumont  : Gonzague Sabine Azéma  : Irène Geneviève Mnich  : Marie-Thérèse Monique Chaumette  : Mercédès Thomas Duval  : Emile Quentin Ogier  : Lucien Katia Wostrikoff  : Mireille Claude Winter  : Madame Ladmiral Jean-Roger Milo  : The fisherman Pascale Vignal  : The waitress Jacques Poitrenaud  : Hector, the landlord Valentine Suard  : Little Girl 1 Erika Faivre  : Little Girl 2 Marc Perrone  : The accordion player

A Sunday in the Country is a film by Bertrand Tavernier from 1984. The screenplay was based on the 1945 novel Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir by Pierre Bost .

action

In a large country house in the late summer of 1912. The old painter Ladmiral usually gets up late. His housekeeper Mercédès is already making preparations for the Sunday visit of his son Gonzague's family.

Ladmiral picks up the family with the three children from the train station. They spend the late morning together in the large garden. The old man doesn't think much of his son - he thinks he is a failure - and his wife Marie-Thérèse is a stranger to him. But he also shows that he is not really satisfied with his own life. Right in the middle of the siesta after lunch, the daughter of the house, Irène, bursts like a whirlwind with her automobile. With her sometimes put on good mood, she brings life to the family reunion, her unhappy love she hides. The brother has negative memories, in his eyes Irène was always preferred by the father. To make matters worse, unlike him, she is professionally successful as the owner of a fashion boutique.

Irène drives the car with her father to a dance hall by a lake. There he confesses to her that he has always been very conservative in his painting, although he admires modern painters very much. However, he was too cowardly to start over. Irène leaves in a rush to save her unhappy love. After a sad dinner, the Gonzague family travels back to Paris. Ladmiral takes the unfinished picture from the easel in his studio and puts up a new canvas. He dreams of painting a “modern picture”.

Awards

• Cannes International Film Festival / Best Director 1984 - Bertrand Tavernier
• César / Best Actress 1985 - Sabine Azéma
• César / Best Cinematography 1985 - Bruno de Keyzer
• César / Best Adapted Screenplay 1985 - Bertrand and Colo Tavernier

Reviews

“In this visually stunning masterpiece, life stories and feelings only unfold in the course of said Sunday. Tavernier builds up an atmosphere here which, thanks to the aesthetic color compositions, almost corresponds to an impressionist painting and thus created a melancholy, detailed work of art that is supported not only by the excellent photography, but also by the brilliant cast. "

- prisma.de

"The very good actors and a masterful staging make the film a cinema event."

- Wissen.de

"The film is not only in its story, but also formally in the tradition of Jean Renoir: It spreads its truth without pathos, subversively."

- Jury of the Evangelical Film Work

“The sadness of the artist, who is gradually saying goodbye to life, and his realization that he has not achieved everything that would have been possible for him is reflected in the moods conjured up with masterful color dramaturgy. He unfolds an art of detail with light effects, colors and tones, the aestheticism of which never becomes an end in itself. "

- International film lexicons

novel

• Pierre Bost: A Sunday in the country . Translated from the French by Rainer Moritz. Dörlemann, Zurich 2013

Web links

• A Sunday in the Country in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ prisma.de: [1]
2. ↑ Wissen.de: [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ gep.de: PDF ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ A Sunday in the Country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .