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FRANCE · 1984
A Sunday in the Country
Bertrand Tavernier
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 expe
Cinema Atlas Connection
We watched Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘A Sunday in the Country.’ These aren’t films that the actors were asked to imitate — rather, they were shown to inform the tone, and to articulate Baumbach’s particular approach to blocking and stagecraft. 'I love how theatrical these movies are, even when they’re outside,' Baumbach said. 'They feel totally stagey, and yet they feel totally real, and that was a feeling I wanted to get here.'
I love how theatrical these movies are, even when they're outside. They feel totally stagey, and yet they feel totally real, and that was a feeling I wanted to get here.
— Noah Baumbach · IndieWire - The Summer of Noah Baumbach