Modern Life

7.6
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 88 min
  • Premiere: 2008. October 29.

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.

Discover

Marcel Challaye

Self

Germaine Challaye

Self

Paul Argaud

Self

Amandine Gagnaire

Self

Michel Valla

Self

Abel Jeanroy

Self

Gilberte Jeanroy

Self

Daniel Jeanroy

Self

Jean-François Pantel

Self

Nathalie Deleuze

Self

Monique Rouvière

Self

Cécile Rouvière

Self

Camille Quenehen

Self

Alain Rouvière

Self

Raymond Privat

Self

Marcel Privat

Self

Marcelle Brès

Self (archive footage)

Louis Brès

Self (archive footage)

Raymond Depardon

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jacques Chirac

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nicolas Sarkozy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anaïs Valla

Self (uncredited)

Elsa Valla

Self (uncredited)

Sylvain Pantel

Self (uncredited)

Charlotte Pantel

Self (uncredited)

Camera

Raymond Depardon

Director of Photography

Crew

Marcelle Brès

In Memory Of

Louis Brès

In Memory Of

André Bergeron

Thanks

Marinette Desfond

Thanks

Robert Desfond

Thanks

André Frachisse

Thanks

Germaine Frachisse

Thanks

Jeanne Serayet

Thanks

Robert Serayet

Thanks

Claudia Boittin

Thanks

Nicolas Boittin

Thanks

Paulette Maneval

Thanks

Robert Maneval

Thanks

Anaïs Valla

Thanks

Elsa Valla

Thanks

Maurice Clément

Thanks

Sylvain Pantel

Thanks

Charlotte Pantel

Thanks

Directing

Raymond Depardon

Director

Editing

Simon Jacquet

Editor

Esther Frey

Assistant Editor

Aude Humblet

Color Timer

Production

Claudine Nougaret

Producer

Catherine Baudry

Accountant

Mathilde Incerti

Publicist

Sound

Gabriel Fauré

Music

Claudine Nougaret

Sound

Gérard Lamps

Sound Mixer

Esther Frey

Sound Editor

Writing

Raymond Depardon

Writer

Camera

Raymond Depardon

Director of Photography

Crew

Marcelle Brès

In Memory Of

Louis Brès

In Memory Of

André Bergeron

Thanks

Marinette Desfond

Thanks

Robert Desfond

Thanks

André Frachisse

Thanks

Germaine Frachisse

Thanks

Jeanne Serayet

Thanks

Robert Serayet

Thanks

Claudia Boittin

Thanks

Nicolas Boittin

Thanks

Paulette Maneval

Thanks

Robert Maneval

Thanks

Anaïs Valla

Thanks

Elsa Valla

Thanks

Maurice Clément

Thanks

Sylvain Pantel

Thanks

Charlotte Pantel

Thanks

Directing

Raymond Depardon

Director

Editing

Simon Jacquet

Editor

Esther Frey

Assistant Editor

Aude Humblet

Color Timer

Production

Claudine Nougaret

Producer

Catherine Baudry

Accountant

Mathilde Incerti

Publicist

Sound

Gabriel Fauré

Music

Claudine Nougaret

Sound

Gérard Lamps

Sound Mixer

Esther Frey

Sound Editor

Writing

Raymond Depardon

Writer