“In our time, this is the choice of a strong life!” : Experience life in the mountains with shepherds, in the cinema

A pastoral fairy tale out of time …

The whim, Matthew (Felix-Antoin Duval) moves on to his life as an advertisement in Montreal, Berger Provence. Although she hoped for calm, she often found comprehensive work and breeders. But when he meets Elisha Rigot, who has just left everything, they trust the herd of 800 sheep and participate in a transmuman. Together, they pass mountain tests and form a new life.

In the theaters this week, shepherds lead their viewers in the heart of the mountains. Forget about the new feature film of the city and its problems, urban and mechanics, Quebec director Sophie Deraspe, betting bets on the fate of its own space.

“” “Shepherds are the story of a person looking for their place in the world of reading, in full access to a stateExplains the filmmaker. As soon as you start taking care of yourself, animals, nature, and overall, I felt that the place was available to the other, in the ratio of intimate relationship. I really wanted to fall in love with this movie center . We understand that Matthias’s hands learned, maintained their lives, but also death, and that they know how they love them.»

The denial of the capitalist model is, theirs, completely abandoning his new lifestyle, with sincere and touch. Particularly sensitive to pastoral care, a somewhat neglected poetic form by the modern world, young men dream of all the great space, wandering and detachment. Candide contemporain in this role, cast Félix-an endoine duval It shines with sincerity, curiosity, and friendliness in an absolutely authentic way.

Throughout his journey, Matthews meet a variety of colorful characters: sometimes allies, sometimes brutal reminders of rough reality, these varied figures make their way as so many views of Berger’s profession. In addition to the performance of Alocast Sauvage, which was revealed in the cinema 120 beats per minute, the viewer would appreciate that in the gallery of character gallery there are some essentials of French cinema: including Gilin London – a memorable Benedetta – and David Ayala, who is excited.

With its exciting panorama, which is confiscated by a person (or animal) rather than a plane, shepherds offer their viewers to escape from time, a new breath of breathing in the rhythm of voluntary intrigue that seduces and inspires. At the same time, Sophie Deraspe’s feature film refuses to idealize. Avoids of pastoral life from the essential vision of pastoral life, shepherds also resort to this left severity, very often abandoned fiction, as well as the system.

… It is responsible for a particularly modern social subtext

Between fantasy (wolves) and documentary films (Amina’s profile), Sophie Deraspe’s works always question modern things: relationships with nature and animals, of course, but also with parents, emigration or even mysticism. In Bergers, it is marginality that the filmmaker lives on the long tradition, more or less voluntary:

“” “In our time, the presence of a shepherd is a strong choice of life, a means of placing oneself within a capitalist communityIt explains. We are at the crossroads of ancestral culture and the modern world . ”

Economic difficulties, loneliness, environmental challenge … So many issues have been terribly experienced by shepherds and shepherds, and whom they are in front of the invisible wall. The confrontation with his character’s life span with the leading death of his spectrum, Sophie Deraspe leads to one of the rich and modern portraits of one of the oldest professions in the world, a modern and powerful pastor that leaves thought.

Shepherds, Sophie Deraspes, should now be found in the cinema.