Farrebique ( Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons )

Farrebique (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1946 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Georges Rouquier

Written By:
Georges Rouquier

Actors:
Georges Rouquier

Synopsis:

In this documentary set in the French province of Rouergue, a vast family-owned farm called Farrebique thrives with an abundance of fresh crops and healthy animals. The family, consisting of grandfather, grandmother, their son and his wife and the couple's children, toil to ensure the success of the century-old farm. Long traditions are threatened, however, by the grandfather's wish to bring electricity to the farm, and a budding romance between his grandson and a neighboring farmer's daughter.

Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier, is widely regarded as his finest film. Rouqier concentrates on a single French farm family, following them through the four seasons. As in the works of Robert Flaherty, the human characters and the land surrounding them are 'one', and Rouqier never misses an opportunity to parallel their lives with the eons-old phases of nature. The final symbolic images of Spring, achieved through time-lapse photography, are almost unbearingly beautiful. The winner of several festival awards, Farrebique nonetheless did not immediately result in an outpouring of financing for Rouqier's follow-up films (this was a common problem in the financially strapped French film industry of the 1940s). Perhaps as a result, Rouqier did not make his sequel, Biquefarre (filmed in the same region, with some of the same 'actors'), until 1983!

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 March, 2009.

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