Marie Gicquel / Credits: AVENET Pascal / Hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP 08:22, February 5, 2024, modified at 08:24, February 5, 2024
The life of farmers in the cinema with “La Ferme des Bertrand”. To make this documentary, Gilles Perret planted his camera for 50 years on a dairy farm, between arduousness and the advent of milking robots.
On this farm in Haute-Savoie, it is time to take stock for the Bertrand brothers. Hands in the earth or around a bowl of brandy coffee, these three farmers, characters with strong characters, confide in front of the camera about the arduousness of their work or the regret of not having founded a family. “It didn't even occur to me to want to try to start a family because you knew very well that you would be incapable of supporting it like the others and that it would inevitably be a tragedy,” assures one members of the siblings.
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A cinema that “quickly becomes intimate”
Gilles Perret, their neighbor, has been filming them for several decades. "I approach things. It's a cinema that is quite simple, but which quickly becomes intimate. There is this concern to know what we transmit, what we transmit as land, how we respect ultimately the working tool,” he confides.
“In life, there is not only the satisfaction of money, there is a certain satisfaction of leaving nature in good condition, beautiful nature,” explains one of the brothers, an eye on the cows, the other towards the sky: “I like being in the city with this weather”. The Bertrand family invests 365 days a year and touches us. This documentary by Gilles Perret appears to be an essential testimony to an agricultural world that resists.