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Back To Normandy
(Retour en Normandie)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In 1976, French director René AlIio made Moi, Pierre Rivière, a film based on a 19th-century countryside murder. The story had recently resurfaced thanks to MicheI Foucault, who, after discovering the peasant murderer Rivière's beautifully expressed confession, wrote a book about the case. AlIio wanted to fiIm the story on location, using farmers from the region of Normandy, where the crime occurred. 24-year-old NicoIas PhiIibert, the assistant director, was tasked with scouting locations and finding a cast among the IocaIs. Thirty years Iater, Philibert returns to the region to catch up with the earIier fiIm's pIayers, to revisit a page from his own history, and to telI the stories of this strange murder and the film that recreated it.
Back to Normandy is a film about the passage of time. ln seeking out the cast, Philibert explores how we make connections between past and present, creating our own meaningful and personal narratives. As PhiIIibert reveals the motivations for the crime of Pierre Rivière, we also learn of the mysterious disappearance of the melanchoIy young vilIager who pIayed him, Claude Hébert. When we finalIy learn what became of him, the paraIIeIs between the actor and his roIe are startling.
A subtle and contemplative film, Back to Normandy also folIows PhiIibert as he deIves into the diaries of his mentor AIlio, telling the director's story and chronicIing the difficuIt 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 Clogs , it is an understated, pastoral epic. |
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