Pierre Braunberger on Jean Renoir
A Day in the Country • 5m 41s
In this excerpt from a 1979 interview, A DAY IN THE COUNTRY producer Piere Braunberger talks about his relationship with director Jean Renoir and the film’s production difficulties. The interview originally appeared in the documentary PORTRAIT D’UN PRODUCTEUR: PIERRE BRAUNBERGER, directed by Robert Rea.
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Renoir at Work
The working methods of director Jean Renoir, who was thought to have often used improvisation, were illuminated in 1994 when the Cinémathèque Française released UN TOURNAGE À LA CAMPAGNE, composed of eighty-nine minutes of outtakes from the production of A DAY IN THE COUNTRY. The following video ...
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Un tournage à la campagne
In 1962, four and a half hours of outtakes from A DAY IN THE COUNTRY were given to the Cinémathèque Française. In celebration of the centenary of director Jean Renoir’s birth in 1994, filmmaker Alain Fleischer helped the Cinémathèque edit selected portions–including audio of Renoir directing the ...
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A DAY IN THE COUNTRY Screen Tests
The following screen tests for A DAY IN THE COUNTRY were shot on June 25 and 26, 1936. They are presented here courtesy of the Cinémathèque Française.
