A Country Party (1936)

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Movie
German title A country game
Original title Partie de campagne
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1946
length 40 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jean Renoir
script Jean Renoir
production Pierre Braunberger
music Joseph Kosma
camera Claude Renoir
cut Marguerite Renoir
Marinette Cadix
occupation

Eine Landpartie is a French feature film by Jean Renoir that was shot in 1936, but was not released for the first time until 1946. A novella by Guy de Maupassant served as a template . Three members of the Renoir family worked on the film. In addition to Renoir, his wife Marguerite also appears in a supporting role. She was also involved in the editing and the nephew Claude Renoir acted as cameraman.

action

In the early 1880s, a family went on a trip to the country on a summer day. From the Sunday party are Madame and Monsieur Dufour, their daughter Henriette and her fiancé Anatole. While the men are fishing or sleeping, the two women get to know the two young men Henri and Rodolphe. They invite mother and daughter to go on a boat trip. On a lonely river island, the young men and the women of the family flirt. Without hesitation, the mother gives herself to her lover. The daughter, too, has great affection for her admirer. Two years later, when Henriette has long been married, she returns to the place of this romance and meets the admirer of yore. She admits that she still thinks back to the romance from then.

criticism

“ Une partie de campagne recreated the literary model with great sensitivity. The sun, the water, the trees seem almost sensually present; an art of "landscape painting", which Renoir later repeated in Le dejeuner sur l'herbe , proved its worth here . But the atmosphere is also Maupassants. "

- Reclam's film guide :

"Jean Renoir's masterful adaptation of a Maupassant novella with all its melancholy and emotional strength, the masterful visual design gives the film an intense impressionistic power."

- film service

“ A Landpartie is the enchanting film adaptation of a Maupassant novella, a work that will not age any more than its original. For friends of high film art [...] an unadulterated pleasure. "

- Protestant film observer

background

The film was made in July 1936, shortly after the Popular Front government was elected in France . Luchino Visconti , Jacques Becker and Yves Allégret, who were later successful as directors, worked as assistant directors on the film. Filming was frequently interrupted as the weather and lighting conditions were extremely difficult. Eventually Renoir stopped filming and the film was left unfinished. It was not until 1946 that the producer Pierre Braunberger decided, with Renoir's consent, to cut the existing film material into a 40-minute film with subtitles.

The literary model, the 1881 novella “Une Partie de Campagne” by Guy de Maupassant , takes place at a time when Jean Renoir's father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir , was widely recognized. Jean Renoir shot the melancholy film "Eine Landpartie" using lighting and image design similar to those known from his father's paintings, who at the time the novel was written, often painted river landscapes around Paris in the Impressionist style .

literature

  • Paul Duncan, Christopher Faulkner: Jean Renoir: The Complete Films. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2007. ISBN 3-8228-3094-1
  • Helmut Färber: PARTIE / RENOIR or / ou “J'aime mieux la méthode qui consiste à concevoir chaque scène comme un petit film à part”. Munich / Paris 2011. ISBN 978-3-9800178-4-8 ( content )

Web links

swell

  1. ^ Reclams Filmführer, 2.A. 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
  2. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 290/1955
  3. ^ Wheeler Winston Dixon: Partie de campagne. In: Senses of Cinema. July 11, 2010, Retrieved December 3, 2019 (American English).