

A Sunday in the Country
Bertrand Tavernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $8.2M
- Language
- French
- countryside
- insect
- sunday
- painter
- family relationships
- old man
- rural area
- 1910s
- elderly man
- father daughter relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical2 Oct 1984
FranceFR
- Theatrical11 Apr 1984
GermanyDE
- Theatrical619 Jan 1985
JapanJP
- TheatricalG16 Nov 1985
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical4 Oct 1984
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl19 Oct 1984
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A Sunday in the Country was released on 11 April 1984.
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10/19/2025
Did you know that is was Canius Fanius who forbade the rearing of chickens on the streets of ancient Rome? That’s what you learn from a weekly lunch with your ageing father/grandfather and what “Msr. Ladmiral” (Louis Decreux) imparts to his visiting son “Gonzague” (Michel Aumont) who is visiting for Sunday lunch with his wife “Mercédès” (Monique Chaumette) and three children. Although they all get on fine, I think fo…
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