The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
25 audience votes
Key crew
- Raymond DepardonDirector
- Raymond DepardonWriter
Cast
- Marcel ChallayeSelf
- Germaine ChallayeSelf
- Paul ArgaudSelf
- Amandine GagnaireSelf
- Michel VallaSelf
- Abel JeanroySelf
- Gilberte JeanroySelf
- Daniel JeanroySelf
- Jean-François PantelSelf
- Nathalie DeleuzeSelf
- Monique RouvièreSelf
- Cécile RouvièreSelf
Stills
Themes
interviewcattlefarmerfarm crisispassage of timelocal farmersfarmer familyrural lifemountain lifetraditional valuesdocumentarynature and people