Modern Life (2009)

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 Depardons 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