I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… 1976
7.2
IMDB
1976
, Crime, Drama
130 min.
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, 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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Claude Hébert
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Jacqueline Milliere
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Joseph Leportier
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Annick Gehan
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François Regnault
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