{"product_id":"partie-de-campagne","title":"PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE - DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePARTIE DE CAMPAGNE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA film by Jean Renoir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, Jean Renoir's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePartie de campagne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was hailed as an unfinished masterpiece. Since then, his masterly adaptation of a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-loved film.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, - and to the river has seldom been surpassed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a bitter-sweet lyricism, its tenderness and poetic feel for nature, its tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePartie de champagne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e seems to distil the essence of all that is most personal to Renoir's art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDVD extras\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e include commentary by film historian Philip Kemp, a director's biography and extra material from the Cinémathèque Française (discarded takes and screen tests)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrance | 1936 | black \u0026amp; white | French language with English subtitles | 39 minutes + 42 minutes extra material | Academy Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This lyrical tragedy rates with Renoir's greatest... visually it recaptures the impressionist period.' --Pauline Kael\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Witty and sensuous, it's pure magic.' --Geoff Andrew\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600830582958,"sku":"BFIVD576","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4614\/3918\/files\/partie-de-campagne-lime-light.jpg?v=1754409554","url":"https:\/\/limelightcollection.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/partie-de-campagne","provider":"Limelight Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}