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| Starring: |
Jacques Spiesser, Andre Rouyer, Max Vialle, Francis Huster, Michel Robin, Therese Quentin, Mado Maurin, Marianne Epin, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Ropion, Claude Bouchery, Michel Delahaye, Roger Jacquet, Francois Dyrek, Patrick Floersheim |
| Director: |
Christine Lipinska |
| Studio: |
TARTAN FILMS |
| Run time: |
124 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Genres: |
Drama, World Cinema |
| Languages: |
French |
| Released: |
24/03/2008
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Brief synopsis of I Pierre Liviere
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'.
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