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Article: 'SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY' POIGNANT; 'LOST HORIZON' GRAND ESCAPISM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 1987
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A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, screenplay by Colo and
Bertrand Tavernier based on Pierre Bost's novel,
"Monsieur l'Admiral va bientot mourir." Starring Louis
Ducreux, Sabine Azema, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich,
Monique Chaumette. MGM/UA Home Video, in French with
subtitles, $79.95.
One of the most poignant and beautiful films of the '80s. Its
themes -- the parenting of children and the parenting of art,
illuminated during the ritual Sunday visit of an aging French
painter's grown children in 1906 -- are timeless. They don't say or
do much, yet at the end, we know everything important about them.
Tavernier has said that ...