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This could be the most sublime film you'll ever see about French cattle farming.
April 9, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… -
Though visually seductive, especially for anyone longing to escape the urban jungle, Modern Life is also to be admired for refusing to slide into postcard lyricism.
April 3, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 -
Visually evocative and deeply moving on the theme of the deterioration of an ancient way of rural life.
April 3, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Depardon's palpable sense of respect for his subjects lends the film a geniality that would otherwise have been hard to fabricate.
April 3, 2009 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review… -
The pastoral beauty of the scenery and the lyrical journey of Depardon's camera are underscored by a sense of acute melancholy and hopelessness in this affecting film.
April 3, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
There is a richness of fellow-feeling and lack of condescension in Raymond Depardon's study of rural farmers in the remote French countryside.
April 3, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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