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Back home, the difficulties are multiplying and they're going to have
to give up the farm.
He's looking for a way out, but just seems to run up against brick walls.
He remembers something his father once said, " country folk never die
of hunger as long as they have a plot of land and seeds to sow... "
François Dupeyron, Director
From 1978 to 1988, Dupeyron made 9 short films, including La Dragonne
(Grand Prix de Festival de Clermont-Ferrand) and Lamento (Grand Prix/
Clermont-Ferrand and César 1989). He also wrote the screenplay Le fils
Préféré by Nicole Garcia, and for Un pont entre deux rives by Gérard
Depardieu. Other films: Drôle d'endroit pour une Rencontre (1988) with
Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, Un coeur qui bat with Dominique
Fayasse and Thierry Fortineau, and La machine d'après R. Belleto with
Nathalie Baye and Gérard Depardieu.
C'est quoi la vie
?
"That's a question that everyone asks themselves at one
time or another, and Nicolas asks himself the question. He is
young end entering
adulthood, and he is searching. Life, we know what it is, it's
everything around us, but there is another embedded question.
' What's the meaning of life? ' He doesn't know where to turn
or what's happening to him. He's a bit lost. "
" He learns that
if we poison the animals or poison the land, we poison ourselves
and we die. But it's all so muddled for him because he's so
entrenched within, in what he has always seen and done. He also
feels a desire to go elsewhere, to take a giant step towards
leaving it behind. He's not sure what he wants: Spend the rest
of his life there, on the same stretch of land as the seasons
go by year after year... "
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Eric Caravaca, Nicolas
" His indecision reflects other worries. Nicolas is representative of
the young people my age. In the rural regions notably, young people
linger aimlessly not knowing which direction to take. My cousins who
live in the country are the same, always waiting for something to happen."
" In order to prepare for the role, I spent a while in Normandy. I learned
how to milk cows, pull up beet roots, drive a tractor, etc. Not so as
to imitate the farmer - I'm not supposed to be an expert farm hand in
the film - but to delve into this universe. To get a better feeling
of the rhythm of a day on the farm."
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