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Genre : Documentary | Original Language : English | Country : United States
Directed by : Louis Malle Screenplay : Louis Malle Cinematographer : Charlie Clifton, Louis Malle Editor : James Bruce
Producers/ Co- Producers : Vincent Malle
Duration : 95 mins(US: 90 mins)
“Cinéma vérité has a moral implication: it's meant to define the truth, which is very pretentious and not necessarily true. I like cinéma direct because it's more a technique than anything else. What I call cinéma direct is a kind of documentary where you completely improvise, you work with a minimal crew, you don't try to organize reality, you just try to find where your interest or curiosity takes you, you try to film what you find interesting or surprising, and later try to make sense of it in the cutting room. It's a cinema of instinct, of improvisation, a cinema very much of the present.”
-Louis Malle
Synopsis
This heart-warming and thoughtful 1986 PBS documentary carries the viewer to Glencoe,Minnesota,for a loving and enduring portrait of the local citizenry. The film is shot as a time capsule— a snapshot of the prairie heartlands during the late ''70s and mid-''80s.Malle shot the first segment in 1979,and returned six years later to film the conclusionThe first half is sweet,gentle, and lyrical,the second half heartbreaking,for by the time of his return,the optimistic small-parcel farmers whom Malle introduces at the outset have been wiped out by Reagan-era recession.He documents a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
