Collection
Profils paysans
A documentary series by Raymond Depardon.
Timeline
- 1
Profiles Farmers: The Approach5/9/20011h 30m 7.4The first of a documentary serie about rural France.
- 2
Profiles Farmers: Daily Life2/23/20051h 23m 7.2Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.
- 3
Modern Life10/29/20081h 28m 7.5For 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.