Back to Normandy (2007)

Highly Recommended

France
Feature Documentary
Original Title: Retour en Normandie
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Cinematographer: Katell Djian
Featuring: Nicolas Philibert, Jospeh Leportier, Marie-Louise Leportier, Nicole Picard, Gilbert Peschet, Blandine Peschet, Annick Bisson, Michel Bisson, Jacqueline Milliere, Anne Borel, Catherine Borel, Christophe Borel, Olivier Borel, Pierre Borel, Yvonne Borel, Norbert Delozier, Charles Lihou, Annie Lihou, Roger Peschet, Caroline Itasse, Janine Callu, Nicole Cornue, Bruno Gahery, Claude Hebert

Documentarian Philibert, returns to the site of I, Pierre Riviere…(1976), a film that he had worked on 30 years previously, and rediscovers its amateur cast, exploring their memories of filming and their subsequent lives; what results is a constantly surprising, genuinely moving, and occasionally devastatingly sad minor-masterpiece exploring the simple beauty of rural life, the power of cinema, and the effects of time. Iain.Stott