Fermière à Montfaucon

In just a few simple lines, Fermière à Montfaucon gives a picture of the French countryside in the 1960s: the last moments of a disappearing, changing world. The simplest documentary images are there to make us aware of the raison d'être of agriculture, harvesting the fruits of a cyclical and repetitive nature. As the seasons go by, Eric Rohmer films a farmer's wife, Monique Sendron, and under the director's watchful eye, she tells us of her life on the farm and her involvement in farmers' organisations. The softly spoken woman gives us a portrait of herself and her life where, in her words, "the danger here is closing in on yourself".