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BACK TO NORMANDY
A film by Nicolas Philibert
AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK FROM JANUARY 18
In 1975, Director Nicolas Philibert (Etre et Avoir) was a young assistant to film-maker Rene Allio.
Together, they made Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mère, ma soeur et mon frere (I, Pierre Rivière, having cut the throat of my mother, my sister and my brother) a little-seen film based on the disturbing true story of a peasant who murdered his family in 1835.
All the main parts in I, Pierre Riviere were played by non-professional actors from Normandy. Here, thirty years after the film’s release, Philibert takes his camera back to the region to learn about the lives of it’s stars during the intervening years. Weaving through time- between 1975, the present time, and the nineteenth century- Philibert creates yet another captivating documentary.
This competition is now closed. The winners are as follow:
Jenny Price, Lincs, DN158DT
Brenda Mitchell, Lancaster, LA1 4JQ
Dave Newton, Northumberland, NE44 6HF
