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C'est quoi la vie ? (1999)

115 min · Drama

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Directors

François Dupeyron

Cast

Éric Caravaca, Jacques Dufilho, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Isabelle Renauld

A livestock farmer faces debt and a mad cow disease case that will require his herd to be slaughtered.

The story

Nicolas lives on a farm with his parents and grandparents. A livestock farmer facing debt, he also faces a case of mad cow disease that means the herd must be slaughtered.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Nicolas lives on a farm with his parents and grandparents. Because of his debt as a livestock farmer, a case of mad cow disease, and the slaughter of the herd that must follow, his father kills himself. With his grandparents moved into a nursing home, Nicolas tries to get by; then he decides to settle with his sister and grandparents in the old, abandoned farmhouse on the Causse, where Maria lives with her children. Maria is a widowed singer with whom he has fallen in love.

Genres

Drama

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