A Sunday in the Country ( Un dimanche à la campagne )

A Sunday in the Country (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Un dimanche à la campagne
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
German ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Bertrand Tavernier

Written By:
Bertrand Tavernier
Pierre Bost

Actors:
Louis Ducreux ..... Monsieur Ladmiral
Michel Aumont ..... Gonzague
Sabine Azéma ..... Irène (as Sabine Azema)
Geneviève Mnich ..... Marie-Thérèse (as Genevieve Mnich)
Monique Chaumette ..... Mercédès
Thomas Duval ..... Emile
Quentin Ogier ..... Lucien
Katia Wostrikoff ..... Mireille
Claude Winter ..... Madame Ladmiral
Jean-Roger Milo ..... Fisherman (Le pêcheur)
Pascale Vignal ..... A servant (La serveuse)
Jacques Poitrenaud ..... Hector (Patron guinguette)
Valentine Suard ..... Little girl (La petite fille 1)
Erika Faivre ..... Little girl (La petite fille 2)
Marc Perrone ..... Accordionist (L'accordéoniste)

Synopsis:

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his paintings to keep him company. The action of the film takes place on a bright autumn Sunday in the early 1900s when Ladmiral's son, Gonzague (Michel Aumont), and Gonzague's wife, Marie-Therèse (Geneviève Mnich), come out from Paris with their three children to visit the old man. While making small talk with Gonzague, Ladmiral hints ever so subtly that his son has become too bourgeois, too conformist, too accepting of the status quo. Apparently, Ladmiral doesn't want his son to face what he is facing: self-recrimination for failing to take risks, failing to go beyond the bounds of tradition. Outdoors, the couple's two boys are only too eager to risk and dare. At one moment, they try to set fire to an insect and, failing, have the audacity to ask for a magnifying glass to do the job. Their father, Gonzague, disapproves, of course, but Ladmiral pronounces his blessing on the project, and he authorizes them to use his glass. No doubt, the old man hopes they survive childhood with their gumption and gall intact - like Irène. Irène is Ladmiral's other child - a vivacious, free-spirited beauty who speaks her mind and follows her whims. She is everything that Gonzague is not. Later, she drives her Papa to a dancehall. There, he tells her about his ruminations - that maybe he should have experimented with impressionism. After examining his current project, he considers whether to make a decision, one that may change nothing - or perhaps everything.

An elderly widower, who never quite succeeded as a painter, has a visit from his children and grandchildren at his country home.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 18 January, 2010.

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