Retour en Normandie

Returning to the Scene of a Crime Movie

More than 30 years ago the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert began his career as an assistant director on René Allio’s true-crime drama “I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother …” Adapted from Michel Foucault’s celebrated account (based on the killer’s jailhouse confession) of a young Norman peasant who in 1835 used a billhook to commit triple murder, the movie was filmed only a few miles from the crime scene, mainly with local residents.
In “Back to Normandy,” Mr. [...]

di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (2832 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 luglio 2008