Picnic on the Grass

Picnic on the Grass

Film poster
Directed by Jean Renoir
Produced by Ginette Courtois-Doynel
Written by Jean Renoir
Starring Paul Meurisse
Catherine Rouvel
Fernand Ledoux
Music by Joseph Kosma
Release dates
11 November 1959
Running time
91 minutes
Country France
Language French

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a 1959 film directed by Jean Renoir. It was distributed in the USA as Picnic on the Grass; it is known in the UK by its original title or in translation as Lunch on the Grass.[1] It shares its title with the painting by Édouard Manet.

Reception

The film was named to year-end top ten lists by Andrew Sarris, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut.

References

  1. Monthly Film Bulletin, no.316 (May 1960), p.63.


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