Rent I Pierre Riviere (1976)
3.2 of 5 from 52 ratings
2h 4min
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- Synopsis:
Based on documents complied by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Riviere, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical, bold and uncompromising, director Rene Allio's extraordinary work (which is itself the subject of the documentary 'Back to Normandy' by Nicolas Philibert, who served as Allio's assistant) is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry, an historical reconstruction, and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath. - Actors:
- Jacques Spiesser, André Rouyer, Max Vialle, Francis Huster, Michel Robin, Thérèse Quentin, Mado Maurin, Marianne Epin, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Ropion, Claude Bouchery, Michel Delahaye, Roger Jacquet, François Dyrek, Patrick Floersheim, Marie Véronique Maurin, Anne Lipinska, Olivier Grégoire, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Fred Ulysse
- Directors:
- Christine Lipinska
- Writers:
- Régis Hanrion, Christine Lipinska
- Aka:
- Je suis Pierre Rivière
- Studio:
- Tartan
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- France
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