I, Pierre Rivière ( Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère... ) ( I, Pierre Rivière Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister And My Brother )

I, Pierre Rivière (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...
Alternate Title: I, Pierre Rivière Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister And My Brother
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
René Allio

Written By:
Nicolas Philibert
Michel Foucault

Actors:
Claude Hébert ..... Pierre Rivière
Jacqueline Millière ..... Mme. Rivière
Joseph Leportier ..... M. Rivière
Annick Géhan ..... Aimée Rivière - la soeur
Nicole Géhan ..... Victoire Rivière - la soeur
Emilie Lihou ..... La grand-mère paternelle
Antoine Bourseiller ..... Le juge Legrain
Michel Amphoux ..... Le greffier Lebouleux
Jacques Debary ..... Le docteur Bouchard
Chilpéric de Boiscuillé ..... Le procureur du roi
Léon Jeangirard ..... Docteur Vastel

Synopsis:

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, I, Pierre Riviere, a unique and original film, charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Riviere, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical, bold and uncompromising, director Rene Allio's extraordinary work is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry, an historical reconstruction, and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath.

Reconstruction of the murder by a peasant farmer's son of his mother, sister and brother in 19th century Normandy. Originally claiming the murder was 'God's judgement', Riviere later wrote his confessional memoirs in jail before being executed. Using local villagers to re-enact the events, the film melds re-enactment, documentary and psychological study, attempting to highlight the similarities that exist between Normandy then and now.

Based on a groundbreaking 19th-century French trial, this movie recreates the courtroom controversy surrounding a young man who, after losing his religious faith, killed his mother and other siblings in order to assist his father. The trial was the first in French history to permit psychological factors to contribute to the testimony.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 March, 2009.

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