Following on from the phenomenal success of ETRE ET AVOIR, Nicolas Philibert steps back into the past to return to the subjects of his earlier film, the true story of a brutal murder in the heart of a rural Normandy community,
In 1975, Nicolas Philibert was a young assistant director on René Allio's film I, PIERRE RIVIÈRE, HAVING SLAUGHTERED MY MOTHER, MY SISTER AND MY BROTHER... ... Based on documents compiled by Michel Foucault, the film, set in 1835, told the story of a young man who murdered his family and ran away to the countryside, and the trial that followed. Part sociological exploration, part historical document, and partly an investigation into a psychopathological crime, the film featured a cast made up mostly of local villagers reenacting their ancestors' actions. Thirty years on, Nicolas Philibert decided to go back to Normandy and seek out the original cast to see what impact the film had on their lives. Philibert's personal journey paints a compassionate portrait of a place and its inhabitants examining the shared experience of making a film, and the boundaries between fact and fiction.
| Directed by | Nicolas Philibert |