A Day in the Country (Criterion Collection) Release:A Day in the Country (Criterion Collection) They turned quickly to America

They turned quickly to America

led by Carlo Centemeri

makes recordings

Symphony X

2 Romantic

A Day in the Country (Criterion Collection) Release:A Day in the Country (Criterion Collection) They turned quickly to AmericaThis bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is 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. Conceived as a short feature, the project had nearly finished production in 1936 when Renoir was called away for the Lower Depths. Shooting was abandoned then, but the film was completed with the existing footage by Renoir's