I Pierre Rivierre Details

I Pierre Rivierre

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, I, Pierre Riviere, a unique and original film, charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Riviere, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside.

With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'.

Starring	Claude Herbert, Mado Maurin, Marianne Epin, Vincent Ropion, Claude Bouchery, Michel Delahaye, Francois Dyrek, Patrick Floersheim
Director	Rene Allio
Studio	TARTAN FILMS
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 7 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: French
Released	Production year: 1976 To Rent: DVD: 24 Mar 2008