Modern Life

IMDb link: 0881310
IMDb rating: 7.5 (639 votes)
Genres: Documentary
Director: Raymond Depardon
Cast: Paul Argaud, Louis Bres, Marcelle Bres, Jacques Chirac, Germaine Challaye, Marcel Challaye and others

Release date: 29 Oct 2008
Release year: 2008
Runtime: 88 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: third in trilogy, cattle, france, year 2007, passage of time, life passing by, end of an era, solitude, agriculture, abandoned farm

Plot:

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. "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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