DRAMA.
We finish off the peasants well
“In the name of the earth” at 9:10 p.m., on France 2.
Pierre, 25, returns from Wyoming (United States) with the ambition of taking over his father's farm.
In love with Claire, he has big plans and feels more like an entrepreneur than a farmer.
Twenty years later, the couple had two grown children and the estate was devoted to goat breeding.
But profits are falling and debts are piling up.
To get by, he chose to expand further by launching into intensive chicken farming.
The noose is slowly tightening...
Inspired by the director's own story, this drama echoes the problems encountered by the peasant world.
A sequence at the end of the film also reminds us that the suicide rate remains very high in rural areas.
Guillaume Canet, who had seen and appreciated a documentary by the director, “The Sons of the Earth”, is impressive in this trajectory in the form of an infernal spiral.
Veerle Baetens, already spotted in “Alabama Monroe” (2012) or “les Ardennes” (2015), is impeccable.
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