I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

1976 fr 130 minutes

Rating: 5.9

Plot

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”.

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Cast

Claude Hébert

Claude Hébert

Pierre Rivière

Jacqueline Milliere

Jacqueline Milliere

Meme Rivière

Joseph Leportier

Joseph Leportier

Mr. Rivière

Annick Gehan

Annick Gehan

Aimée

François Regnault

François Regnault

Cast member

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