CinemaOSMovie · 1947 · 1h 31m

Farrebique, or the Four Seasons

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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.

Directed byGeorges Rouquier

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Released
Runtime
1h 31m
Language
FR
Released
February 11, 1947
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Écran FrançaisLes Films Etienne Lallier

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Directed by
Georges Rouquier
Georges Rouquier
Written by
Georges Rouquier
Georges Rouquier
Produced by
Jacques Girard
Jacqueline Jacoupy

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