Modern Life

Raymond Depardon
2008-10-29


7.6
88 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Marcel Challaye Self Unowned
Germaine Challaye Self Unowned
Paul Argaud Self Unowned
Amandine Gagnaire Self Unowned
Michel Valla Self Unowned
Abel Jeanroy Self Unowned
Gilberte Jeanroy Self Unowned
Daniel Jeanroy Self Unowned
Jean-François Pantel Self Unowned
Nathalie Deleuze Self Unowned
Monique Rouvière Self Unowned
Cécile Rouvière Self Unowned
Camille Quenehen Self Unowned
Alain Rouvière Self Unowned
Raymond Privat Self Unowned
Marcel Privat Self Unowned
Marcelle Brès Self (archive footage) Unowned
Louis Brès Self (archive footage) Unowned
Raymond Depardon Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Unowned
Jacques Chirac Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Unowned
Nicolas Sarkozy Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Unowned
Anaïs Valla Self (uncredited) Unowned
Elsa Valla Self (uncredited) Unowned
Sylvain Pantel Self (uncredited) Unowned
Charlotte Pantel Self (uncredited) Unowned