Blu-ray, DVD Release: A Sunday in the Country

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Laurence
– December 19, 2019Find Others: Blu-ray, DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 17, 2019
Price: DVD $13.29, Blu-ray $19.89
Studio: Kino Lorber

The 1984 drama A Sunday in the Country is a lovingly photographed and exquisitely acted portrait of French family life on the brink of the first World War.

Monsieur Ladmiral (Louis Ducreux) is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague (Michel Aumont) and free-spirited daughter Irene (Sabine Azema, Wild Grass) and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface – the passage of time has left no family member unscathed.

Based on the novel by Pierre Bost and directed by the great Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, ‘Round Midnight), A Sunday in the Country offers a picture of the hopes, disappointments, and small joys of family as a father’s life reaches its autumn season.

Kino Lorber’s new editions of the film notably offers a newly recorded audio commentary by filmmaker Tavernier.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.