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Depardon's palpable sense of respect for his subjects lends the film a geniality that would otherwise have been hard to fabricate.
David Jenkins, Time Out
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Modern Life
Overview
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. 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 in France. "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.
Director and cast
- Raymond Depardon Director
- Paul Argaud as Lui-même - 63 ans, un fermier solitaire
- Marcel Challaye as Self
- Germaine Challaye as Self
- Jacques Chirac as Lui-même (archive footage)
- Amandine Gagnaire as Self
- Michel Valla as Self
- Abel Jeanroy as Self
- Gilberte Jeanroy Cast
- Daniel Jeanroy Cast
- Jean-François Pantel Cast
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