Synopsis
French director George Rouqier's companion piece to his 1938 film Farrebique was, to put it mildly, long overdue--some 35 years, to be exact. In Biquefarre, the set-in-its-ways rural family whose farm was wired for electricity in the first film are still on the family spread in 1983. This time, the plot concerns the plans of a farmer to sell his his land to another. Though documentary in technique, the film is well planned and scripted, with its amateur cast convincingly mouthing the lines given them by...more