The Tree, the mayor and the media library

the Tree, the mayor and the media library is a film French carried out by Eric Rohmer and left in 1993

Synopsis

Julien Dechaumes is the socialist mayor of Saint-Juire, a charming small village of the Vendée. With a political aim (next legislative elections), it tries to obtain a subsidy of the Ministry for the Culture in order to equip its village with a media library. In company of his/her friend of heart, the Parisian écrivaine Bérénice Beaurivage, it returns visit to his/her uncle, editor association of a monthly magazine of left, in order to obtain its media support. On this occasion, Julien becomes acquainted with the journalist Blandine Lenoir who, allured by his step, decides to devote an article to him. It goes to Saint-Juire to interview the inhabitants and meets the teacher Marc Rossignol, violently opposed to the project in particular because of the demolition of a splendid tree centenary that the construction of such a building would involve…

Comment

Rohmer can collect the air of time well and sticks here to follow the steps of a politician modest and honest, the socialist mayor Julien Dechaumes (Pascal Greggory). It is not a “leaf”, but a country squire rather shifted, thinking that the fact of equipping its village with a media library is an innovating idea being able to serve its career. The small media circle of left is truer than natural. The journalist Blandine Lenoir (Clementine Amouroux) conscientiously achieving his report is very credible. One already believes to have seen, with the tv news, a instit ecologist in anger such that Fabrice Luchini incarnates it. But the palm undoubtedly returns to the portrait of fashionable and very Parisian écrivaine Bérénice Beaurivage that makes Arielle Dombasle of it, inénarrable in sore moved in the countryside, energy of surprised in surprise, discovering how pushes the salad (at the city, it knows it only in spare parts bagged) or astonished by the cows labelled by observing that the nº 425 “takes better” the lettuce sheet that the nº 426. The word of the fine cost with Zoe, the gamine of the instit, which issues that what misses especially in the villages, they are green areas, because, to play, the children must go more and more far in the countryside…

Data sheet

Distribution

Pascal Greggory: Julien Plow the stubble
Arielle Dombasle: Bérénice Beaurivage
Fabrice Luchini: Marc Nightingale, the teacher
Clementine Amouroux: Blandine Lenoir
François-Marie Banier: Governed Lebrun-Blondet
Michel Jaouen: Antoine Pergola
Jean Parvulesco: Jean Walter
Francoise Etchegaray: Mrs Rossignol
Galaxy Barbouth: Zoe Nightingale
Jessica Schwing: Véra Plow the stubble
Raymonde Farau: the secretary
Manuella Hesse: the young girl with the par

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External bond

Image: Bérénice discovers the countryside with Julien

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