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Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
Bearing witness to the end of a way of life, the final chapter in Raymond Depardon’s Profils paysans trilogy closes the loop by reuniting with the previous films’ subjects for interviews in his native Haute-Garonne.
The final chapter in the Profils paysans trilogy, Raymond Depardon’s 2008 film closes the loop by reuniting with the previous films’ subjects in his native Haute-Garonne around the kitchen table in a series of culminating interviews. As the farmers (and Depardon’s camera) bear witness to the end of a way of life as they knew it, Depardon expertly, movingly trains his focus on the bond between these people and the land they till and seems to pose the question: what does it mean for this way of life to vanish?
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