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Profiles Farmers: The Approach

2001 · 90 min

Quiet, patient listening to weathered voices and long silences, like sitting in a farmhouse kitchen while the light slowly changes.

Directed by
Raymond Depardon
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Marcelle Brès, Raymond Privat, Louis Brès
Overview
The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

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Directed by
Raymond Depardon
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Marcelle Brès, Raymond Privat, Louis Brès
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • work
    • family
    • aging
    • nature
    • trauma
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • serialised
    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
    Darkness3
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Raymond Depardon
    Starring
    Marcelle Brès, Raymond Privat, Louis Brès, Marcel Privat, Alain Rouvière, Monique Rouvière, Jean-François Pantel, Nathalie Deleuze
    Cinematography
    Raymond Depardon
    Runtime
    90 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French, Occitan

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