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Modern Life

2008 · 88 min

A quiet, unhurried look at hardworking rural lives, leaving you with a calm ache for roots and passing time.

Overview
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.
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • aging
  • family
  • nature
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • wilderness
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Raymond Depardon
Written by
Raymond Depardon
Starring
Marcel Challaye, Germaine Challaye, Paul Argaud, Amandine Gagnaire, Michel Valla, Abel Jeanroy, Gilberte Jeanroy, Daniel Jeanroy
Cinematography
Raymond Depardon
Runtime
88 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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