Modern Life
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.
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Part of Profils paysans
3 films
Cast
25 people
Raymond Depardon Director · Simon Jacquet Editor
Worldwide gross $470K · Budget $3.4M · United States release February 7, 2009
Box office
Budget
$3,400,000
Worldwide gross
$470,000
Gross vs. budget
0.1×
Production
Palmeraie et Désert
Production
France 2 Cinéma
Production
ARTE France Cinéma
Production
France · Switzerland
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Languages
Original title
Profils paysans : La Vie moderne
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · May 18, 2008
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
France · October 29, 2008
Theatrical
United States · February 7, 2009
Premiere · Portland International Film Festival
United States
May 23, 2009 · Premiere · Seattle International Film Festival
Argentina
April 4, 2009 · Premiere · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Austria
June 12, 2009 · Theatrical
Belgium
November 5, 2008 · Theatrical
Brazil
October 17, 2008 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Finland
August 22, 2008 · Premiere · Espoo Film Festival
Germany
November 16, 2008 · Premiere · Französische Filmtage Tübingen
Ireland
April 3, 2009 · Theatrical
Japan
June 26, 2010 · Theatrical
November 27, 2016 · Premiere · Food & Agriculture Film Festival in Hiroshima
Latvia
September 13, 2008 · Premiere · Arsenals Film Festival
Netherlands
January 23, 2009 · Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
March 19, 2009 · Theatrical
Philippines
September 5, 2011 · Premiere · .MOV International Film, Music, & Literature Festival
Serbia
February 22, 2009 · Premiere · Belgrade Film Festival
South Korea
May 4, 2009 · Premiere · Jeonju International Film Festival
Sweden
January 23, 2009 · Premiere · Göteborg International Film Festival
March 31, 2009 · Theatrical
Switzerland
October 27, 2008 · Digital
United Kingdom
April 3, 2009 · Theatrical
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