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I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother… (1976)
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I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother… (1976)
Original name: Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère…
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.
Style: factual
Plot: patricide, murder, philosophy, infidelity, family conflict, punishment, power relations, murder investigation, peasant, fratricide, matricide, sororicide, rural setting, countryside, crime, crimes
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1830s

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