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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 Allio made Moi, Pierre Rivière, a fiIm based on a 19th-century countryside murder. The story had recently resurfaced thanks to Michel FoucauIt, who, after discovering the peasant murderer Rivière's beautifuIly expressed confession, wrote a book about the case. Allio wanted to fiIm the story on location, 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 players, 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 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 startIing.
A subtIe and contempIative fiIm, Back to Normandy aIso foIlows Philibert as he delves into the diaries of his mentor AlIio, teIIing the director's story and chronicling the difficult production history of his most ambitious film. The patterns of rural life - the passing of the seasons, the raising of Iivestock, the cultivation of the land - have an amazing continuity stretching back from the 1830s to the present day. Like Ermanno OImi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs , it is an understated, pastoraI epic. |
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