Amory Clay, the central character, describes a solitary picnic for herself. She is recovering from childbirth trauma. A healthy baby suddenly dies. Amory is depressed, but one day she takes a moment to find solace. “Today was one of those weird Mediterranean moments...
For six hours and 17 minutes, Tom Harper’s War and Peace is a parade of armies marching or in battle, explosions, mutilations, death, love and seduction, incest, and constant social intrigue. The final 2:8 minutes is a picnic, a happy situation, if not a fairy tale...
F For Victoria and Abdul, Stephen Frears and writer Lee Hill portray Queen Victoria as the willing victim of a “typical glum-and-cold” British picnic. Unwilling to be put off by an oncoming thunderstorm, cold, and wind, Victoria insists on picnicking on...
Mixing fact with fiction, Danièle Thompson (very) loosely retells the complex friendship of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne in Cézanne et Moi, especially how Cezanne helped Zola see from a painter’s point of view. Though they were childhood friends in Aix and later...
There are two picnics in Gerwig’s Little Women: a wedding picnic and a beach picnic. The first is Meg March and Mr. Brook’s reception. As in Alcott’s novel, it’s “a plentiful lunch of cake and fruit, dressed in flowers.” But Gerwig’s foods include wine, lemonade, and...
Sergio Aragonés’s comic imagination upends a happy picnic. Featured Image: Sergio Aragonés’s “Crime Scene Picnic.” 3, 2018.
This is a protest picnic in plague-time. It features two masked picnickers toasting one another with Molotov cocktails. MAD is a street artist from Tabriz, Iran. Featured Image: Picnic.Hand-Stencil on Prolux 300gsm Base Paper
There are two picnics, both occurring about the same time in 1946. One concerns the Watson’s and the other the Hewett’s. Both picnics are bittersweet and end with unhappy consequences. The Watson family celebrates the Fourth of July by attending a family picnic. It’s...
Beer and apples. Featured Image: Luncheon on the Pasture, acrylic on canvas.
Though it’s February and light snow is on the ground, Rose Burbank stops for a picnic. She’s romancing George Burbank, a good-hearted, undemonstrative rancher. He’s thinking about his automobile and what it would be like to have a more luxurious...
