fuente.Director: Louis Malle
Producer: Vincent Malle
Photography: Louis Malle
Editor: James Bruce
Sound: Jean-Claude Laurex
With:
The residents of
Glencoe, Minnesota
(population 5000)
Reviews and notes
A truly lovely little film from the sadly underrated Malle. As ever, in this documentary about the inhabitants of the small farming town of Glencoe, Minnesota, the director reveals an extraordinary compassion for his subjects, inevitably viewed as well-meaning, dignified, but flawed. The gently comic tone of the beginning - happy, united farmers mowing the lawns, cow inseminators enjoying their literally shitty work, farmboys driving enormous tractors - gradually deepens to a darker hue as the legacies of Vietnam and Reagan are examined, and the tightly knit community is shown as a breeding ground of ignorance (blacks are absent, gays invisible).
Then for the final twenty minutes, Malle shows us Glencoe six years on: dreams severely damaged, prosperity threatened and newly-weds become prematurely middle-aged. Malle never mocks, merely understands; and though an extremely personal document of one European's love-hate for middle America, the film is of interest and relevance to us all.
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out, 19 November 1986
GOD'S COUNTRY provides an insight into the lives of the residents of Glencoe, Minnesota, located about sixty miles west of Minneapolis. Glencoe is a small farming community of 5,000 people, 80% of them German. Director Louis Malle spent two weeks in 1979 interviewing and filming the Glencoe residents, and last summer returned to follow up on their lives. With a cinéma verité style, the people talk about themselves, their lives and concerns.
"I was curious about looking into a part of this country I didn't know anything about," Malle said. "I had the idea of settling down in a farm town to make friends with the people and share their lives. I filmed them at work and talked to them about everything: politics, religion, love. I found the people were very sophisticated, very aware of the world, basically conservative, but smart and much better informed than I expected to find."
His goal in making the film, he said, was to give "a view of people you don't see all the time in films, ordinary and normal people and how they live." Why Glencoe, located in what the people there call 'God's Country'? It was an accident. "We were just driving around Minnesota and arrived in Glencoe on a Sunday. It was during the town Festival and everybody was out on Main Street. There was a polka band, everyone was drinking beer, the mayor was working one of the booths, and everyone was having a good time."
After the initial period of filming Malle kept in touch with Glencoe through letters, Christmas cards and telephone calls, but didn't have a chance for a return visit until last year. He found that things had changed considerably. "What has happened to the farmers there is on the grim side," he said. "The farm crisis has hit them pretty hard and several of them are in serious financial trouble. It is quite sad, quite moving."
- Kalamazoo Gazette, 27 November 1985.
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Datos:
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GMC: No
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Audio Bitrate: 93
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Audio Channel Count: 1
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