Modern Life

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.

Documentary

Marcel Challaye

(Self)

Germaine Challaye

(Self)

Paul Argaud

(Self)

Amandine Gagnaire

(Self)

Michel Valla

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Abel Jeanroy

(Self)

Gilberte Jeanroy

(Self)

Daniel Jeanroy

(Self)

Jean-François Pantel

(Self)

Nathalie Deleuze

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Monique Rouvière

(Self)

Cécile Rouvière

(Self)

Camille Quenehen

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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))