The Village Pleasure

(festival title)
  • France La Douceur du village
France, 1963, 47 min

Directed by:

François Reichenbach

Cinematography:

Jean-Marc Ripert

Plots(1)

Or, how to become a Frenchman in a few lessons. It’s the essence of cinéma vérité, combining an essayistic approach with an effort to capture raw reality in all its truth, but at the same time, we’re watching a documentary version of The Firemen’s Ball in the French countryside. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)