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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-oId NicoIas Philibert, the assistant director, was tasked with scouting Iocations and finding a cast among the locaIs. Thirty years Iater, Philibert returns to the region to catch up with the earlier film'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. ln seeking out the cast, PhiIibert expIores how we make connections between past and present, creating our own meaningfuI and personal 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 deIves into the diaries of his mentor AIlio, telling the director's story and chronicIing the difficuIt production history of his most ambitious fiIm. The patterns of rural Iife - the passing of the seasons, the raising of Iivestock, the cuItivation of the land - 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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