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2 videodiscs (40 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #746
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A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men
Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant
Special features: Intoduction by Jean Renoir from 1962; new interview with Renoi scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film's production ; new video essay by Faulkner on Renoir's methods; Un tournage à la campagne en 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film; interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979; screen tests; essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez
Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'arnoux
DVD, (1.33:1) aspect ratio, monaural
French dialogue; English subtitles