Farrebique, or the Four Seasons (1947)
1h 31m
Running Time
February 11, 1947Release Date
Farrebique, or the Four Seasons (1947)
1h 31m
Running Time
February 11, 1947Release Date
Plot.
Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier, is widely regarded as his finest film. Rouqier concentrates on a single French farm family, following them through the four seasons. As in the works of Robert Flaherty, the human characters and the land surrounding them are "one", and Rouqier never misses an opportunity to parallel their lives with the eons-old phases of nature. The final symbolic images of Spring, achieved through time-lapse photography, are almost unbearably beautiful. The winner of several festival awards, Farrebique nonetheless did not immediately result in an outpouring of financing for Rouqier's follow-up films (this was a common problem in the financially strapped French film industry of the 1940s). Perhaps as a result, Rouqier did not make his sequel, Biquefarre (filmed in the same region, with some of the same "actors"), until 1983.
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Cast & Crew.

Georges Rouquier
Director / Writer

C. Blanchard
Idea

Jacqueline Jacoupy
Producer

Marcel Fradetal
Camera Operator

Henri Sauguet
Original Music Composer

Jacques Girard
Producer

René Lécuyer
Sound Recordist

Roger Desormière
Music Director
Media.

Details.
Release DateFebruary 11, 1947
Original NameFarrebique ou les Quatre Saisons
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
farm worker
farm life
pyrenees
farm house
social documentary
isolated farmhouse
local farmers
farmer family
observational documentary
simple life
labor documentary
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