Profils paysans: le quotidienDepardon revisits the farmers he introduced in the first chapter of his powerful trilogy (L'approche), this time to concentrate on the vicissitudes of everyday life as his characters' livelihoods are affected by globalisation and the mounting pressure to sell family farms.
Depardon - himself the son of farmers - resists political dogma and hackneyed sentimentalism to create a restrained elegy.
Shot very simply, it differs from the earlier film by dispensing with the principles of direct cinema to achieve an explicit dialogue with its subjects.
