Alain Aubert-Dechartre

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Alain Aubert-Dechartre

Alain Aubert-Dechartre is a French director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris, Alain Aubert-Dechartre began his career as director of the film department at the Franco-Nigerian Cultural Center in Niamey. Over the course of his career, he has directed several short and feature films, including Four Days of a Partisan, selected at Cannes in 1…

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Chronique Des Années TristesChronique Des Années Tristes · 1977
Chronique Des Années Tristes
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Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited

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