| | |  | COUNTRY MUSIC | Home » » A Sunday in the Country (Deluxe Letterboxed Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | Bertrand Travernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I. Alive with the subtle brush strokes of an artist at the top of his form, Travernier's acclaimed "A Sunday in the Country" is a lovingly photographed and exquisitely acted portrait of the Ladmiral family at the beginning of the twentieth century. Based on the novel by Pierre Bost, "A Sunday in the Country" becomes an Impressionist painting in itself, mirroring the Ladmiral patriarch's trade. The film is a moving picture of the hopes, disappointments, and small joys of family as a father's life reaches its autumn season. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma, Geneviève Mnich, Monique Chaumette | | Director:
| Bertrand Tavernier | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| French | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Kino Video | | Run Time:
| 90 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 02, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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24 of 25 found the following review helpful:
One of the most beautiful motion pictures ever made.Feb 21, 1999
By Miles D. Moore
Every frame of this film is like watching an Impressionist canvas in motion. This gentle, poignant character study of an elderly painter in the early 1900s is packed with beauty, insight and three-dimensional characters. Louis Ducreux, a French stage star who made his movie debut here at age 73, is subtle, compelling and deeply moving, as are the rest of the actors. The exquisite sound track (based mostly on the chamber music of Gabriel Faure) enhances the sunny yet wistful tone of the film. It's defintely not a movie for thrill-seekers, but for those seeking a two-hour vacation in a slower, gentler and lovelier world, it's a gem.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Classic French FilmJun 03, 2000
By William H Dotson
Just want to corroborate what the earlier 2 reviews state and to add that on the dvd is an audio commentary track by the director, a fact I had not seen published anywhere and did not actually discover until I purchased the dvd. Lovely transfer, lovely film.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
A Visual FeastFeb 25, 2001
By carol irvin
"carol irvin"
This is a lovely film. I warn you that some may find it too slow because it takes a very painterly look at the microcosm of this aging man's world. If you can lose yourself in the art of it though, the pace will be just right. One of the people I saw this film with in the theater found it very depressing because of the old age approaching death aspect. Although the elderly painter is certainly moving in that direction, this film is much more about how his art is integral to his life and how his family fits into this scheme when they visit him one Sunday in his country studio and home. If you are an artist or art lover, you will adore this film for the visual feast that it is.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Beauty and regretMar 21, 2011
By S. Smith-Peter
This beautiful film is also a meditation on beauty and regret. The beauty is obvious - it's pre-1914 France, a Sunday in the country, and the landscape, clothes, food and people are gorgeous. And yet the patriarch of the family is a painter who rejected the Impressionists and is now wondering if that was the right thing to do. And so the theme of regret enters the movie. Then comes his son and his wife and their children. The son, despite once being a painter himself - he gave it up to avoid being his father's rival - is a solid member of the bourgeoisie and clearly a disappointment to his father. The son knows this and regrets it.
Then the old man's daughter comes. Everyone loves her, including the children. The scene where she plays a game with the children that ends when the parents want to join in is a very well-observed one. Somehow the son and his wife are cut out of that joy of childhood, and they regret that. And we find that the daughter has her own complicated life back in Paris, too. The children are the ones that don't regret. One is tempted to say that that is what defines them as not yet adults.
At the end of the film is a beautiful scene of the landscape that serves as a reminder of the beauty around us. And yet I wonder if the old man would look at it with regret, since the Impressionists have already painted it so well. And yet the beauty remains.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A touching film!Feb 14, 2007
By Hiram Gomez Pardo
Since the first opening shot, you will be conveyed into a magical world at the beginning of the XX century, where the impressive talent of one of the most remarkable French directors ever born - Bertrand Tavernier - renders his personal homage, not only to Jean Renoir's "A day in the country" ; but the Impressionist art of painting with Manet as the principal starring.
The fabulous images, arresting landscapes, lavish photograph hover the whole picture; around the lives and times of an elderly widowed French artist who never the made the grade in order to achieve a major receptivity into his artistic circle. He is visited by his short family a Sunday and so we will witness with astonishing accuracy and fluid camerawork, the intimacies of this family. There are smart flashbacks around Irene his vanished wife and the peaceful way of living of the last days of the XIX Century.
The script flows with organic majesty and marvelous dignity. Tavernier achieved a genuine jewel of infinite carats.
By no reason you should miss this treasured film of the Eighties. One of my favorite films to watch over and over again.
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