Login
Farrebique ou les Quatre Saisons (1946)
Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier, is widely regarded as his finest film. Rouqier concentrates on a single French farm family, following them through the four seasons. As in the works of Robert Flaherty, the human characters and the land surrounding them are "one", and Rouqier never misses an opportunity to parallel their lives with the eons-old phases of nature. The final symbolic images of Spring, achieved through time-lapse photography, are almost unbearably beautiful. The winner of several festival awards, Farrebique nonetheless did not immediately result in an outpouring of financing for Rouqier's follow-up films (this was a common problem in the financially strapped French film industry of the 1940s). Perhaps as a result, Rouqier did not make his sequel, Biquefarre (filmed in the same region, with some of the same "actors"), until 1983.
Updated May 24 2020
Releases:
More Releases
Crew
Georges Rouquier
Scenario Writer
If you liked this then you may like:
163386
356644
356657
356667
356676
356677
356687
356734
356767
356768
356793
356795
356818
356819
356838
356839
356896
356906
356908
356923
356924
356927
356928
356929
356931
356954
356990
357013
357068
357087
357114
357132
357156
357181
357218
357220
357223
357226
357227
357229
357231
357232
357234
357236
357237
357238
357239
357241
357245
357254