Farrebique or the Four Seasons

Audience Score
67
Farrebique or the Four Seasons
NR 1 hr 30 minDocumentary
Farrebique the first featurelength effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier is widely regarded as his finest film Rouqier concentrates on a single French farm family following them through the four seasons As in the works of Robert Flaherty the human characters and the land surrounding them are one and Rouqier never misses an opportunity to parallel their lives with the eonsold phases of nature The final symbolic images of Spring achieved through timelapse photography are almost unbearably beautiful The winner of several festival awards Farrebique nonetheless did not immediately result in an outpouring of financing for Rouqiers followup films this was a common problem in the financially strapped French film industry of the 1940s Perhaps as a result Rouqier did not make his sequel Biquefarre filmed in the same region with some of the same actors until 1983