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Modern Life (2008)

Modern Life (2008)

Documentary
Release Date: 2008, October 29
Directors: Raymond Depardon
Countries: France
Production: Palmeraie et Désert, France 2 Cinéma
Cast: Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Marcel Challaye, Germaine Challaye, Paul Argaud, Amandine Gagnaire, Michel Valla, Abel Jeanroy, Gilberte Jeanroy, Daniel Jeanroy, Jean-François Pantel, Nathalie Deleuze

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.

Keywords:

farmer interview rural life cattle passage of time traditional values farmer family documentary testimony grounded people nature and people local farmers mountain life people and nature farm crisis unsophisticated people roots land finding your roots