This French movie inexplicably received some award tonight (First Feature Award) from the Philadelphia Film Society. I can only assume the people who picked it were either insane or loved dairy farms. Why? Because there were much better first films there AND this was an incredibly unappealing movie.
Pierre is a man obsessed with dairy farming. He has no wife nor seems very interested in anything but his cows. But when a hemorrhagic fever attacks one of his cows, you realize Pierre is a bad person. Instead of alerting authorities and having his small herd destroyed, he killed the animal, buried AND substituted another cow for it! Then, when a second died, he stole a cow from a neighbor and replaced it with his dead one. Clearly, Pierre is a jerk-face and didn't seem to care that his herd might destroy all the farmers around him.
Watching Pierre tromping about in cow feces, shooting a cow and later seeing it covered in maggots isn't my idea of a feel-good film. Apparently it IS for some Philadelphia Film Society folks. To cut to the chase, this is a film that would only appeal to a tiny minority of people. While technically the film is well made, the story is a bit dull and gross and the hero(?) totally unlikable...and I think my score of 3 is very fair...perhaps too fair. Just who would want to see this anyway?!
Pierre is a man obsessed with dairy farming. He has no wife nor seems very interested in anything but his cows. But when a hemorrhagic fever attacks one of his cows, you realize Pierre is a bad person. Instead of alerting authorities and having his small herd destroyed, he killed the animal, buried AND substituted another cow for it! Then, when a second died, he stole a cow from a neighbor and replaced it with his dead one. Clearly, Pierre is a jerk-face and didn't seem to care that his herd might destroy all the farmers around him.
Watching Pierre tromping about in cow feces, shooting a cow and later seeing it covered in maggots isn't my idea of a feel-good film. Apparently it IS for some Philadelphia Film Society folks. To cut to the chase, this is a film that would only appeal to a tiny minority of people. While technically the film is well made, the story is a bit dull and gross and the hero(?) totally unlikable...and I think my score of 3 is very fair...perhaps too fair. Just who would want to see this anyway?!