Modern Life (PG)

Director: Raymond Depardon

France, 2008, 1 hour 27 minutes, subtitles

An eloquent testimony to a vanishing way of life showing French hill farmers trying to make a go of it by traditional methods. Many of them are now elderly, and most are people of few words. The octogenarian Private brothers are struggling with age, declining health, and the arrival of an outsider into the family fold; another elderly couple sees their dairy herd dwindle to just one cow. Filming the landscape in wide shots to capture its remote beauty, Depardon approaches all of them with empathy and affection and so creates a wonderfully simple, direct and delicate film.

"A richly compassionate tribute to its hardy subjects and their slowly vanishing way of life." Total Film

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