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Biquefarre (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice 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
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Georges Rouquier

Written By:
Georges Rouquier

Actors:
Henri Rouquier ..... Henri
Maria Rouquier ..... Maria
Roger Malet ..... Raoul
Marius Benaben ..... Lucien
André Benaben ..... Marcel
Francine Benaben ..... Martine
Marie-Hélène Benaben ..... Genevieve
Roch Rouquier ..... Roch
Raymond Rouquier ..... Raymond
Georgette Rouquier ..... Jeanette

Synopsis:

A group of farmers in provincial France play themselves in this docudrama based on their day-to-day lives and challenges. Times have changed in the farming business: the market has become increasingly competitive, pollution poses new challenges and the price of land has skyrocketed. Against this backdrop, a group of neighboring farmers negotiate the sale of a parcel of land. All the while, they must juggle daily chores, tending to livestock and the harvest.

Biquefarre is a small farm in Aveyron. The changing economics of farming lead Raoul, in late middle age, to decide to sell and move to Toulouse. At least two neighboring farmers want to buy Biquefarre: Lucien and the young Marcel. Behind the scenes, Henri, whose brother is Marcel's father and who is also Lucien's brother-in-law, negotiates with Raoul so that Marcel's father can secretly sweeten Marcel's offer. Will dad and uncle succeed? In the background is the hard daily work of farming: milking cows, harvesting at night, and finding help when a farmer falls ill. Progress brings challenges: polluted water, factory farms, and skyrocketing land prices.

French director George Rouqier's companion piece to his 1938 film Farrebique was, to put it mildly, long overdue - some 35 years, to be exact. In Biquefarre, the set-in-its-ways rural family whose farm was wired for electricity in the first film are still on the family spread in 1983. This time, the plot concerns the plans of a farmer to sell his his land to another. Though documentary in technique, the film is well planned and scripted, with its amateur cast convincingly mouthing the lines given them by Rouqier. Biquefarre will probably hold its greatest appeal to fans of 'naturalist' filmmaker Robert Flaherty, whom George Rouqier clearly admires and emulates.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 May, 2008.

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