Dans la famille croque-mort

A quiet, patient look at ordinary people doing intimate work, sad and tender at once, asking you to sit with mortality.

Directed by

Anna Peyregne, Valérie Denesle

Genres

Documentary

Overview

In the intimacy of a small family-run funeral home in Burgundy, filmed twenty years apart. Part chronicle of daily life, part observation of funeral rites, this documentary tells the story of the passing on of a vocation and the evolution of our relationship with death.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Death, family, work, grief

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

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