Profils paysans: le quotidien
France,
2001, 82 min
Shown in 2005
CREDITS
- dir
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Raymond Depardon
- prod
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Claudine Nougaret
- cam
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Raymond Depardon
- editor
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Simon Jacquet
- mus
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Gabriel Fauré
- source
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Palmeraie et Desert, 25 voie d\'Igny, Clamart 92140, France. FAX: 33-1-40-83-05-54. EMAIL: Jennifer.biget.palmeraie.desert@wanadoo.fr.
- premiere
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North American Premiere
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COMMENTS
Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret in person.
OTHER
Photographer/director Raymond Depardon turns his gaze from the African desert (Untouched by the West, SFIFF 2003) and the Parisian legal system (10th District Court, SFIFF 2005) to the beautiful mountain regions of France in this insightful portrait of a community close to home yet seemingly worlds away: French farmers. Within the serene mountains and sun-kissed valleys of Lozère and Haute-Loire, generations-old farms are being converted into luxury homes and family-run agricultural businesses are being taken over by multinational conglomerates. For farmers such as Paul Arguad, alone with eight cows and a driving wind, or 22-year-old Amandine Gagnaire, busy adjusting from city life to rural, life is not merely a sentimental attachment to the earth, but a constant battle against bureaucratic and financial hardships. For Depardon, who grew up on a farm and even wrote a memoir of his experiences, Profiles Farmers is one of his most personal films. His bond with these people is obvious, as is his affection for their quiet nature. “Shy and silent people must be given a chance to express themselves,” he writes. “We should not listen solely to talkative people or bigmouths.”
FACTOID #147
The Coppola clan (Francis, Eleanor, Sofia and Roman) is the family with the most filmmakers represented at the Festival. Films screened include Apocalypse Now (1990); One from the Heart (1990); Lick the Star (1998); The Virgin Suicides (2000); CQ (2002); and On the Set of CQ (2002). (And that’s not even counting onscreen appearances by cousins Nic Cage and Jason Schwartzman.)
