Back To Normandy (DVD)

Description: Genre: Documentary / Theatrical Release: 2006 / Suitable for 15 years and over / Director: Nicolas Philibert / DVD ... more

Back To Normandy (DVD) ... released 2008-03-24 at Tartan Video / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... local farmers as some of the main characters in the film; Philibert's documentary however was to track down these farmers 30 ... more

... years later to see what had happened to them. I've not seen the original film and I am not sure that even if I had there would be much advantage to gain in terms of working out why Philibert went and made this documentary. I guess the original film and/or the cast had a profound effect on him and now that he is a director himself he wanted to soak up a bunch of nostalgia surrounding a film he had a part in making some 30 years earlier. I have to say that I didn't really connect with the film; in fact I am only callin...more

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Back To Normandy [2007] [DVD]
Release Date: 2008 - 03 - 24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,

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Back To Normandy (DVD): don't go back to Normandy (587 words)
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== Back to Normandy == === film === When this review disk came in the post I thought it was going to be about World War II, revisiting some of the beaches with people that actually fought there all those years ago; combined with a good few then and now pictures to pull us into the documentary. However whilst it is a documentary about revisiting a place, it certainly has nothing to do with World War 2. Nicolas Philibert is a French director, however back in 1976 Philibert was an assistant director working on Rene Allio's film I, Pierre Riviere... That film was about a murderer called (Strangely enough) Pierre Riviere and he murdered three ... Read the complete review

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