Every film comes out in a particular context.
When it comes to
Asterix
or The
Three Musketeers
, it doesn't make much difference.
But in the case of The
Last of the Jews
, the excellent comedy by Noé Debré
(
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)
, this changes the perspective of the spectator and that of the filmmaker, whose acuity is gauged in the light of current events .
This is also the case for
La Ferme des Bertrand
, whose theatrical release has been dated for a long time, well before the agricultural crisis and the anger of the peasants which shook France.
Against shortcuts and sensationalist reports, perorations and political recuperations, Gilles Perret's documentary sheds moving light on fifty years of peasant history.
Perret had already filmed the Bertrands in
Three Brothers for a Life
.
As a neighbor.
Their house is less than 100 meters from his house.
In the Giffre valley, between Geneva and Chamonix.
The north of Haute-Savoie, in the Reblochon area.
It was 1997 and the film is…
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