Farrebique, or the Four Seasons
1947 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 294 VOTES · DIR. Georges Rouquier
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 358 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:23 or THE FOUR SEASONS
00:02:00 Fabrette, his daughter.
00:05:44 See you later.
00:07:19 l'll talk to him.
00:12:01 Why should l? Farrebique will never be mine.
00:13:01 and bake the bread.
00:22:34 Fabre has to share the cost.
00:23:25 There was just a little hut here
00:24:21 My father built the old barn.
00:25:21 Many deaths and departures.
00:26:37 My children went away.
00:28:07 Why such a talk tonight?
00:31:16 Slowly, the sap rises.
00:33:15 The ladybird appears.
00:35:19 That is why young girls dream.
00:39:02 l thought you weren't keen.
00:42:56 Perhaps electricity attracts lightning.
00:57:31 You can make money there
01:00:30 Sit down.
01:09:44 ''We shall meet
01:11:53 l'd say...
01:12:50 l think we could agree.
01:13:39 settles elsewhere to found a new family.
01:25:51 ls the soup ready?