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Modern Life (2008)

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For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

Cast & Crew

Director
Raymond Depardon
  • Profile picture of Raymond Depardon
    Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Raymond Depardon
  • Profile picture of Jacques Chirac
    Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Jacques Chirac
  • Profile picture of Nicolas Sarkozy
    Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Nicolas Sarkozy

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Keywords

  • interview
  • cattle
  • farmer
  • farm crisis
  • passage of time
  • local farmers
  • farmer family
  • rural life
  • mountain life
  • traditional values
  • documentary
  • nature and people
  • people and nature
  • testimony
  • unsophisticated people
  • roots land
  • grounded people
  • finding your roots