Farrebique, or the Four Seasons

Synopsis

Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Georges Rouqier, is widely regarded as his finest film. Rouqier concentrates on a single French farm family, following them through the four seasons. As in the works of Robert Flaherty, the human characters and the land surrounding them are "one", and Rouqier never misses an opportunity to parallel their lives with the eons-old phases of nature. The final symbolic images of Spring, achieved through time-lapse photography, are almost unbearably beautiful. The winner of several festival awards, Farrebique nonetheless did not immediately result in an outpouring of financing for Rouqier's follow-up films (this was a common problem in the financially strapped French film industry of the 1940s). Perhaps as a result, Rouqier did not make his sequel, Biquefarre (filmed in the same region, with some of the same "actors"), until 1983.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Georges Rouquier
Writing	Idea	C. Blanchard
	Writer	Georges Rouquier
Production	Producer	Jacques Girard Jacqueline Jacoupy
Sound	Original Music Composer	Henri Sauguet
	Sound Recordist	René Lécuyer
	Music Director	Roger Desormière
Camera	Director of Photography	André Dantan
	Camera Operator	Marcel Fradetal
Editing	Editor	Madeleine Gug
Department	Role	Name

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