Paul dans sa vie

Paul dans sa vie

2006•1h 43m•4.8/10

Documentary

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4.8/10(2)

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in a farm from another time with his two sisters, also unmarried. This year, they will retire : « Our lives will be filled with emptiness ». Their territory is the Cape of la Hague. The air is bracing, the wind is unpredicable, the granit is rough, and the horizon without boundaries. In here, Paul resisted to modernity, keen to preserve and improve his link to nature.

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Paul Bedel

Himself

Fabrice Adde

Fabrice Adde

Françoise Bedel

Marie-Jeanne Bedel

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