A Sunday in the Country (1984)

  • NR
  • 10/02/1984 (US)
  • Drama, Family
  • 1h 34m

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

Overview

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.

Bertrand Tavernier

Screenplay, Director

Colo Tavernier O'Hagan

Screenplay

Pierre Bost

Novel

Cast

Sabine Azéma's headshot

Sabine Azéma

Iréne
Louis Ducreux's headshot

Louis Ducreux

Monsieur Ladmiral
Michel Aumont's headshot

Michel Aumont

Gonzague
Monique Chaumette's headshot

Monique Chaumette

Mercedes
Geneviève Mnich's headshot

Geneviève Mnich

Marie-Thérèse
Thomas Duval's headshot

Thomas Duval

Emile
Quentin Ogier's headshot

Quentin Ogier

Lucien
Katia Wostrikoff's headshot

Katia Wostrikoff

Mireille

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