Paul dans sa vie

Paul will be 75 soon. He’s a bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a beadle. He lives in a farm from another age with his two younger spinster sisters. This year, they’re giving it all up. “The Bedels are stopping, it will leave a void in the landscape”. This landscape in question is the cape of La Hague. The air is very cold, the winds unpredictable, the granite rough, the horizon endless. On land, walls of dry stone form a mosaic of tiny parcels of earth. This corner of the Finistère brings Ireland to mind. Obviously, Paul was born here. And he’ll die here. He’s preparing himself for that. Without forgetting the essential: pass on his legacy. Actor in a depressed agrarian society, Paul Bedel had nonetheless done what he could to hold on to it, resisting in his own way, without acrimony or denial. In this country that has remained isolated since the dawn of time, modernity arrived slightly late but with a certain blinding flash, Paul simply followed his own path, preserving and cultivated his bond with nature. Paul and his world, his familiarity with the earth and (the) beyond, Paul and his humility—all this inevitably brings to mind some of his ancestors here in La Hague, a century and a half ago: the peasants painted by Jean-François Millet, a famous native son. The life of Paul is Angélus and The Gleaners combined.

France - 2004 - 1 h 40 mn - Betacam SX - Colour

Director
Rémi Mauger
Script
Rémi Mauger
Camera
Guy Milledrogues
Sound
Sylvain Chemin, Jean-Christian Dureau, Patrick Guerrien, Pierre-Marie Rault, Eric Ruchmann
Editing
Marie-Pierre Duvivier
Music
Les Frères Nardan

Production
Les Films d'Ici,
62 bd Davout,
75020 Paris, France
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Co-Production
France 3 Normandie

Sales
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