Partie de campagne
Partie de campagne pronouncedpa.ti d k.pa is a 1936 French featurette written and directed by Jean Renoir. It is released as A Day in the Country in the United States. The film is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoirs father, the renowned painter Auguste Renoir. It chronicles a love affair over a single summer afternoon in 1860, along the banks of the Seine.
Monsieur Dufour Andr Gabriello, a shopowner from Paris, takes his family for a day of relaxation in the country. When they stop for lunch at the roadside restaurant of Poulain Jean Renoir, two young men there, Henri Georges DArnoux and Rodolphe Jacques B. Brunius, take an interest in Dufours daughter Henriette Sylvia Bataille and wife Madame Dufour Jane Marken. They scheme to get the two women off alone with them. They offer to row them along the river in their skiffs, while they divert Dufour and his shop assistant and future soninlaw, Anatole Paul Temps, by lending them some fishing poles. Though Rodolphe had arranged beforehand to take Henriette, Henri maneuvers it so that she gets into his skiff. Rodolphe then goodnaturedly settles for Madame Dufour.Henri rows to a secluded spot on the riverbank which he refers to as his private office. Though Henriette initially rebuffs his amorous advances, she eventually gives in. He asks her to come see him again, but she says that her father would never permit her to venture into the countryside by herself. ........
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