Le pays bleu
France,
1976, 105 min
Shown in 1977
CREDITS
- dir
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Jean-Charles Tacchella
- scr
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Jean Charles Tacchella
- cam
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Edmond Sechan
- editor
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Agnès Guillemot
- cast
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Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Serres, Ginette Garcin, Armand Meffre, Ginette Mathieu, Roger Crouzet, Anne Roudier, Dora Doll
- prod co
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Gaumont
- source
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Gaumont
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COMMENTS
Shown October 10 and 11, 1977. Brigitte Fossey attended.
OTHER
This is the much awaited new film by the director of Cousin, Cousine. Here Jean Charles Tacchella turns his ironic insight toward the countryside and the foibles of city people who have “got back to the land” and rural folks who dream of moving to the city. Brigitte Fossey stars as a nurse who has moved to the village to take care of everyone, while maintaining her modern philosophies and liberated ethics. Ginette Garcin (the mother in Cousin, Cousine) stands out as an eccentric free spirit who does exactly as she pleases. But all of the town’s inhabitants are thoroughly developed characters, and we come to know them all as Tacchella does, better than they know themselves.
FACTOID #384
Henry Fonda attended the SFIFF in 1967 to receive a tribute for his work in classics like The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men. Daughter Jane showed up in 1975 for a tribute of her own. And her brother Peter made two Festival appearances, one as a guest in 1963 and another to accompany the film Nadja (in which he gleefully portrayed Dr. Van Helsing) in 1995.
