Synopsis
Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the new plant that has just opened. In few days, if not few hours, his life is transformed. He enters the system of mass production and rote work. However, each night, he get back to his farm, far from the urban centers where workers must usually live.
A word from Tënk
This work by Brault coincided with an era of great transformation. While modernity was well established in Western society at the time, the 60s ushered us into a stupefying acceleration of phenomena that quickly consigned the world’s former structural landmarks to the history books. Secularization, an explosion of industry, the working class’s sudden debut into the world of consumption, women’s liberation…while these vertiginous transformations affected social life on every level and were the subject of frequent public discussion, capturing the impacts of this journey to another world on private lives still required a finely-tuned awareness and sensitivity. By staking his camera in 1960s rural Brittany—on the invitation of filmmaker Annie Tresgot, who would go on to edit the film—Brault succeeded in capturing the dissolution of an entire world through the body, gestures and gaze of just one man.
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk’s Artistic Director
