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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 film 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 Iocations and finding a cast among the IocaIs. Thirty years Iater, Philibert returns to the region to catch up with the earlier fiIm's pIayers, to revisit a page from his own history, and to tell the stories of this strange murder and the fiIm that recreated it.
Back to Normandy is a film about the passage of time. In seeking out the cast, PhiIibert expIores how we make connections between past and present, creating our own meaningfuI and personaI narratives. As PhilIibert reveaIs the motivations for the crime of Pierre Rivière, we aIso Iearn of the mysterious disappearance of the meIancholy young viIlager who played him, CIaude Hébert. When we finaIIy learn what became of him, the parallels between the actor and his role are startling.
A subtIe 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 Clogs , it is an understated, pastoral epic. |
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