Saint-Girons. REDITION OF THE FILM: “I was lucky to be a shepherd”

After a first screening on June 4 at Clés closed. Nevertheless, Gilles Rivière’s film, produced and distributed by the company Toulouse Aktis film, will be rebroadcast on Friday August 8 at 6 p.m. Therefore, in the Max Linder room in Saint-Girons, in the presence of the director.

“I was lucky to be a shepherd” is not a film like any other. Similarly, Awarded. Furthermore, many times broadcast on television and having been the subject of an evening Thema on Arte, it constitutes the rare and overwhelming testimony of a man, shepherd on the summer pastures of Barlonguère, in the Ariège Pyrenees. The camera follows him, discreet but grabbing the essentials, for a whole season. Guy. the shepherd, lives up there in almost total autonomy, with his animals, his memories, and saint-girons. redition film: “i lucky this huge mountain, beautifully filmed, for the only companion. Through his words. his gestures, his silences, the film reveals a world: that of a mountain still haven of peace, balance, simplicity and truth.

In an achievement without frills. voiceover, he suggests a sensitive and moving word, sometimes a philosophical reach, very far from an agricultural promotion film. Since its first projection, the film has deeply touched the public and today has started a new cinematographic career. Thirty years after its realization, it has the dimension of a cult work. At 8:30 p.m., he will be followed by Sophie Desrape’s film “Shepherds”, also hailed by critics.