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Renoir manages to inject an uncommon amount of feeling into all the frivolity and whimsy; the results are both absurdist and sublime.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
New Europe presidential candidate Etienne Alexis is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where Mother Nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm throwing Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who, although unimpressed with men, wants to have a baby.
Director and cast
- Jean Renoir Director
- Paul Meurisse as Étienne Alexis, célèbre biologiste
- Catherine Rouvel as Antoinette dite :Nénette
- Jacqueline Morane as Titine
- Fernand Sardou as Nino, le père de Nénette
- Jean-Pierre Granval as Ritou
- Hélène Duc as Isabelle, la secrétaire du biologiste
- Ingrid Nordine as la comtesse Marie-Charlotte
- Charles Blavette as le berger Gaspard
- Gwen Böttger as le curé
- Marguerite Cassan as Mme Odile Poignant
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Again and again, sumptuous photography collapses into cold argument.
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