Farrebique aneb Čtvero ročních dob

"Rouquier’s film is only superficially a documentary. He punctuates the film with time-lapse sequences that show crops growing and flowers blooming, macrophotographic sequences that show blood pumping in arteries and cellular reproduction. He blends the drama of social life in and around the farm—and the cycle of seasons that governs it—with biological analysis. The movie’s central sequence—a visual reconstruction of a century of Farrebique’s history from the family’s perspective, as narrated by the grandfather to his grandson Raymondou—is a virtual evolutionary account of the growth of a farm. A masterly editor, Rouquier brings the long, cyclical rhythms—domestic, seasonal, generational, historical—of farm life with varied and perceptible cinematic rhythms. With its grand cinematography, its built-in social science, and its sense of montage, “Farrebique” most closely resembles a film by Eisenstein; it’s almost like a work of Soviet silent cinema without the ideological obligations and overlays, in which actual social science takes the place of political dogma."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/farrebique-and-biquefarre-two-classic-hybrids-of-fiction-and-nonfiction