Want to spend the dead season in dead loss somewhere in Normandy? Probably not, at least not in Fours in 1960.
Oddly enough, you may like "La boue et le feu" which offers you just that. But watching the reflection of reality is not synonymous with going through it in real life. Art can transcend it and this is exactly what the director of this film, who can be called an artist, does. Indeed with no commentary at all but that of a moody music emphasizing the sadness of the place, Jean-Emile Jeannesson makes this short film a much better than average documentary. He is a past master at capturing the melancholy vegetative life of a small French village huddled up within the hostile winter. Fascinating long sequence shots illustrate to perfection the depressing frozen atmosphere of the place. Not an exhilarating work of course, but a stylish one, a poem rather than a purely informative film.
Oddly enough, you may like "La boue et le feu" which offers you just that. But watching the reflection of reality is not synonymous with going through it in real life. Art can transcend it and this is exactly what the director of this film, who can be called an artist, does. Indeed with no commentary at all but that of a moody music emphasizing the sadness of the place, Jean-Emile Jeannesson makes this short film a much better than average documentary. He is a past master at capturing the melancholy vegetative life of a small French village huddled up within the hostile winter. Fascinating long sequence shots illustrate to perfection the depressing frozen atmosphere of the place. Not an exhilarating work of course, but a stylish one, a poem rather than a purely informative film.