Next Docu Sunday: March 3
February 26, 2024
For Dimanche Docu in early March, head for Haute Savoie with the film The Bertrand farm : an intimate, social and economic history of our farming world. Director Gilles Perret and co-writer Marion Richoux will be on hand for an audience discussion.
Sunday, March 3, 8:30 p.m. at Le Splendid cinema
Synopsis:
50 years in the life of a farm... Haute Savoie, 1972: the Bertrand farm, a 100-animal dairy farm run by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, as the three farmers were in the process of handing over the farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène, director Gilles Perret devoted his first film to them. Now, 25 years later, the director-neighbor takes up the camera again to accompany Hélène as she, in turn, hands over the farm. Through the words and gestures of the people who have succeeded each other, the film reveals a moving life story, in which work and transmission play a central role. An intimate, social and economic history of our farming world.