Arquivo

This film’s origins lie in another, the one that the director René Allio shot in Normandy in 1975 based on a local crime: I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother… Nicolas Philibert was 24 at the time. René Allio offered him a position as first assistant director. Shot a few miles from the scene of the triple murder 140 years earlier, this film owed most of its uniqueness to the fact that nearly every part was given to local country people. Director Philibert decided to return to Normandy to seek out the transient actors of the film. Thirty years have passed and he met, for instance, Claude Hébert, leading role of the assassin when he was 16 years old.