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Modern Life

Modern Life

Part of Profils paysans

2008•1h 28m•7.5/10
Documentary

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7.5/10(23)

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.

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Production

Palmeraie et Désert, France 2 Cinéma

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Marcel Challaye

Self

Germaine Challaye

Self

Paul Argaud

Self

Amandine Gagnaire

Self

Michel Valla

Self

Abel Jeanroy

Self

Gilberte Jeanroy

Self

Daniel Jeanroy

Self

Jean-François Pantel

Self

Nathalie Deleuze

Self

Monique Rouvière

Self

Cécile Rouvière

Self

Camille Quenehen

Self

Alain Rouvière

Self

Raymond Privat

Self

Marcel Privat

Self

Marcelle Brès

Self (archive footage)

Louis Brès

Self (archive footage)

Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jacques Chirac

Jacques Chirac

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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