A Day In The Country

Jean Renoir directed A DAY IN THE COUNTRY in 1936, intending to make a one-hour film of Guy de Maupassant's short story, but rainy weather and conflicts with the cast caused him to abandon the project after only shooting four reels. Ten years later, the uncompleted footage was pieced together and released, resulting in a short film that may be imperfect in structure, yet is sublimely moving and beautifully realized, nonetheless.

One Sunday in the summer of 1860, M. Dufour (Gabriello), a petite bourgeois Parisian hardware dealer, borrows a milkman's wagon and takes a trip into the country accompanied by his wife, Juliette (Jeanne Marken), his daughter, Henriette ...