Modern Life
(2008)
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Modern Life
(2008)
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Paul Argaud | ... |
Lui-même - 63 ans, un fermier solitaire
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Germaine Challaye | ... |
Elle-même - sa femme, 70 ans
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Marcel Challaye | ... |
Lui-même - 80 ans, un fermier
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Jacques Chirac | ... |
Lui-même
(archive footage)
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Nathalie Deleuze | ... |
Elle-même - sa femme
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Raymond Depardon | ... |
Lui-même /
Voix
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Abel Jeanroy | ... |
Lui-même - 63 ans, un fermier à la retraite
(as Abel Jean Roy)
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Daniel Jeanroy | ... |
Lui-même - qui a repris la ferme sans enthousiasme
(as Daniel Jean Roy)
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Gilberte Jeanroy | ... |
Elle-même - sa femme
(as Gilberte Jean Roy)
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Jean-François Pantel | ... |
Lui-même - un jeune fermier établi dans un hameau
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Marcel Privat | ... |
Lui-même - 88 ans, un vieux berger
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Raymond Privat | ... |
Himself
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Camille Quennehen | ... |
Elle-même - la fille adolescente de Cécile
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Alain Rouvière | ... |
Lui-même - leur neveu qui gère la ferme
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Cécile Rouvière | ... |
Elle-même - la femme qu'il vient d'épouser
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This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water. Written by Guy Bellinger
while this installment of the series does indeed provide some very beautiful shots of rural France and the people who are farming it, it fails on several levels.
it fails to tell the story of the farmers it's following. unless you believe that sitting around a table in an uncomfortable silence responding to excruciatingly slowly delivered, simplistic questions is a true slice of their lives.
it fails to tell a story at all, barely scratching at the surface of the problems faced by these farmers using traditional methods.
it seems more a vehicle for the filmmaker to proudly tell us repeatedly how well he knows these folks (which is not borne out by the reactions of the farmers to him or his questions), while feeding us sorrowful questions about death in preparation for the mournful, cello-stoked, backwards-view-of-life ending.