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.
Marcel Challaye
Self
Germaine Challaye
Self
Paul Argaud
Self
Amandine Gagnaire
Self
Michel Valla
Self
Abel Jeanroy
Self
Gilberte Jeanroy
Self
Daniel Jeanroy
Self
Jean-François Pantel
Self
Nathalie Deleuze
Self
Monique Rouvière
Self
Cécile Rouvière
Self
Camille Quenehen
Self
Alain Rouvière
Self
Raymond Privat
Self
Marcel Privat
Self
Marcelle Brès
Self (archive footage)
Louis Brès
Self (archive footage)
Raymond Depardon
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nicolas Sarkozy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anaïs Valla
Self (uncredited)
Elsa Valla
Self (uncredited)
Sylvain Pantel
Self (uncredited)
Charlotte Pantel
Self (uncredited)