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 essay, written and narrated by Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner, examines those outtakes.
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 ...
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.
