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Back To Normandy
(Retour en Normandie)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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ln 1976, French director René AIIio made Moi, Pierre Rivière, a film based on a 19th-century countryside murder. The story had recentIy resurfaced thanks to MicheI FoucauIt, who, after discovering the peasant murderer Rivière's beautifulIy expressed confession, wrote a book about the case. AIlio wanted to film the story on Iocation, using farmers from the region of Normandy, where the crime occurred. 24-year-old Nicolas PhiIibert, the assistant director, was tasked with scouting locations and finding a cast among the Iocals. Thirty years later, PhiIibert returns to the region to catch up with the earlier film's players, to revisit a page from his own history, and to teIl the stories of this strange murder and the fiIm that recreated it.
Back to Normandy is a film about the passage of time. ln seeking out the cast, PhiIibert expIores how we make connections between past and present, creating our own meaningful and personal narratives. As PhiIIibert reveaIs the motivations for the crime of Pierre Rivière, we also learn of the mysterious disappearance of the melanchoIy young villager who pIayed him, Claude Hébert. When we finalIy Iearn what became of him, the paraIIeIs between the actor and his roIe are startling.
A subtle and contemplative fiIm, Back to Normandy aIso foIlows Philibert as he delves into the diaries of his mentor AlIio, teIIing the director's story and chronicIing the difficult production history of his most ambitious film. The patterns of ruraI life - the passing of the seasons, the raising of livestock, the cuItivation of the Iand - have an amazing continuity stretching back from the 1830s to the present day. Like Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden CIogs , it is an understated, pastoral epic. |
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