I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

Oct 27, 1976

2h 10m

★ 6.1

Overview

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a young man, Pierre Rivière, murdered his mother, sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place, the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives, including the written confession of Pierre himself, and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of “truth” and “history”.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Les Films de l'Arquebuse

Polsim Productions

SFP

INA

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Cast

Pierre Rivière

Claude Hébert

Meme Rivière

Jacqueline Milliere

Mr. Rivière

Joseph Leportier

Aimée

Annick Gehan

Cast member

François Regnault

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I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

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