Modern Life

7.5
2008 1 hr 28 min Documentary

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.

  • Cast:
    Raymond Depardon , Jacques Chirac

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Reviews

Dotsthavesp
2008/10/29

I wanted to but couldn't!

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Moustroll
2008/10/30

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Curt
2008/10/31

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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Dana
2008/11/01

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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