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A Day in the Country

A Day in the Country

Jean Renoir, 1936

Spine #746

Picked by 2 guests

Drama / Romance / Comedy

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Jean Renoir

Written by Jean Renoir

Cinematography Claude Renoir

Edited by Marguerite Renoir, Marinette Cadix

Cast Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, Jacques Brunius, André Gabriello, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir

Picked by

Charles Burnett

“A Day in the Country by Renoir. I like his... The way he arranged characters. And when he was living in California, he lived quite near UCLA at the time and I would sneak past his House hoping that I would see him out on the street or something like that, but never had an opportunity. Anyway, he was one of my favorite filmmakers. I like his acting and I like the way he presents a community and how he dramatizes it. Another good filmmaker. You can learn a great deal from him.”

Matías Piñeiro

“Another Renoir, let's have a criteria here. A Day in the Country. This that they have on, it's I don't know if it's crazy to say that it's as good as the film, but you have all the shots, all the takes that they've done with the clap. You see how they wait till the clouds leave the sun and so they start with the shot and it's all edited as the film is.”