From Monday to Friday in Media Culture, Eva Roque gives you her TV tips for the evening.
This Tuesday, she offers us the viewing of documentaries on farmers "We peasants" and "The installation" on France 2.
Eva Roque, you are interested this Tuesday in a special evening on France 2 ...
"Exactly. Paul Valéry wrote in the 1940s:" The countryside, later, was also depopulated, and not only of their charming and formidable phantasies, but finally of their credulous and thoughtful men.
The peasant became a farmer. "Due to the lack of agricultural fair, canceled, France 2 pays tribute to farmers with a first documentary entitled" We, peasants "and signed Fabien Béziat and Agnès Poirier. The story of an epic of those who feed the country for centuries carried by the voice of Guillaume Canet.According to the archives and testimonies, a sociology of our grandparents and great-grandparents is emerging, as a young farmer tells us about her grandmother.
Following, two wars destroy the peasant world and trigger a rural exodus upsetting the balance between city and countryside.
In the 1960s, modernization transformed the fields.
We must produce.
Always more.
The peasants become farmer-entrepreneurs.
The desertification of the countryside continues.
To the point that it is difficult to find buyers for the farms, as is shown by another documentary scheduled for the second part of the evening.
In Brittany, Jean-Yves found two city dwellers, Audrey and Lauriane, ready to take over his organic labeled farm.
They have never worked on the farm.
Jean-Yves will accompany them for a year.
But the two young women know it will be complicated.
A very nice documentary on transmission.
"We peasants" is at 9:05 pm in France.
This is followed by "The installation" on the same channel. "