Modern Life (2008)

Profils paysans: La vie moderne
Modern Life
88 minutes FR Documentary
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.
Raymond Depardon
Director of Photography
Marcelle Brès
In Memory Of
Marinette Desfond
Thanks
Elsa Valla
Thanks

Cast

Marcelle Brès
Self (archive footage)
Louis Brès
Self (archive footage)
Raymond Depardon
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nicolas Sarkozy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anaïs Valla
Self (uncredited)
Elsa Valla
Self (uncredited)
Sylvain Pantel
Self (uncredited)

Crew