A Sunday in the Country

A Sunday in the Country

1984 · 94 min · FR · 7.0 (72 votes)
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · Starring Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Monique Chaumette, Geneviève Mnich, Thomas Duval · Music Marc Perrone

Bertrand Tavernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I

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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.

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A gentle, sun-drenched drift through quiet moments and unspoken regrets. It’s the feeling of a long, lazy afternoon where the weight of the past settles like dust motes in the golden light, and the beauty of the mundane is profoundly felt.

melancholicnostalgiccontemplativewistfulsereneslow-burnFrench New Wavearthouseintimistperiod dramafamily dynamicsagingunfulfilled livesmemoryrural life
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