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It is the story of an almost ordinary year , spent in the heart of rural community, in Bourgogne, where live and mingle families of farmers, the village’s wanderers and the department’s politicians, expressing hopes, disillusions, longings and stakes, while within a generation’s time, the changes dictated by the outside world are so profound and disturbing that all the landmarks, the gestures, the familial and social behaviours have to be looked over again and thought anew.
A year of thorough investigation, among the inhabitants of a rural community, among these professional wanderers who live in it and roam it – the postman, the doctor or the veterinary, the leading citizen or the elected one- records a changing time, a transition period between the immutable traditions of the past and the paradoxes of a perpetually moving present, a world that looks for new bases in order to build a new identity for itself.
Far away from the cities that are so much covered by the medias, the countryside lives on a daily basis its inescapable alteration, dictated by the rules of an European Union its inhabitants hardly understand, or by the ambitions of ecology, still in its early stages. The love of the soil induces hopes, but does not prevent behaviours from drifting or absurd situations to take place. And yet it is there that the future of the countries is at stake…
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"The eyes of a foreigner inevitable mutation may lead to a land without peasants. »
Le Monde"The documentary Andrew Orr is a real foray into peasant. A rare tenderness and narrowly TV. »
Le Figaro"The beautiful images of Pierre Bourgeois, the few interventions Andrew Orr, an Irish settled here, restore the slow chronic earth as you leave. People have time to tell, and journalist, the wisdom of silence. »
Release"Andrew Orr recites a love slow seasons and days of a region he wants his, Puisaye. (…) It is a universal question on the civil war, intimate, engaged in each, between past that sticks to the soles, like clay pottery in this country, and this disorienting which reflects the future. »
Télérama"Strong is the earth, thanks to its range of colors and careful framing, First look at these pictures of Millet, that capture the landscapes of old country life. (…) Andrew Orr a promené son regard, in the manner of an ethnologist, focusing accuracy with the smallest details of everyday life, observing and interviewing people with patience on their activities, without caricature. »
Inrockuptibles"His images, punctuated by the colors of the seasons, are an ode to the region. »
La Vie Hebdo"This documentary is extremely intelligent and generous in his desire to impress the neighbors, to make copies of the present life and its dangers. It also has a great picture, the aesthetic at once poetic and naturalistic. »
The Republican Yonne"Andrew Orr shows how, a generation, new actors and new methods have reshaped the rural. An excellent documentary. »
Point"The eyes of a foreigner inevitable mutation may lead to a land without peasants. »
Le Monde"The documentary Andrew Orr is a real foray into peasant. A rare tenderness and narrowly TV. »
Le Figaro"The beautiful images of Pierre Bourgeois, the few interventions Andrew Orr, an Irish settled here, restore the slow chronic earth as you leave. People have time to tell, and journalist, the wisdom of silence. »
Release"Andrew Orr recites a love slow seasons and days of a region he wants his, Puisaye. (…) It is a universal question on the civil war, intimate, engaged in each, between past that sticks to the soles, like clay pottery in this country, and this disorienting which reflects the future. »
Télérama"Strong is the earth, thanks to its range of colors and careful framing, First look at these pictures of Millet, that capture the landscapes of old country life. (…) Andrew Orr a promené son regard, in the manner of an ethnologist, focusing accuracy with the smallest details of everyday life, observing and interviewing people with patience on their activities, without caricature. »
Inrockuptibles"His images, punctuated by the colors of the seasons, are an ode to the region. »
La Vie Hebdo"This documentary is extremely intelligent and generous in his desire to impress the neighbors, to make copies of the present life and its dangers. It also has a great picture, the aesthetic at once poetic and naturalistic. »
The Republican Yonne"Andrew Orr shows how, a generation, new actors and new methods have reshaped the rural. An excellent documentary. »
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Festivals-
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2nd Prize - Professional Video, Cine'Eco Seia (Portugal, 1999)
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Forterre
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