Toulouse Métropole: Jean – Pierre Améris presents a preview of “Les folies fermières”
On Wednesday and Thursday, the director will be at Mega CGR, Véo Muret and Méliès Castelmaurou to present his new film. The true story of a Tarn farmer who, to save his farm, set up a cabaret on his farm…
Accompanied by David Caumette, a farmer from Tarn, who inspired the film, director Jean-Pierre Améris (“Les émotifs anonymes” “Marie Heurtin” “Father’s profession”) will come to present his new film “Les folies fermières”. this Wednesday at the Mega CGR Blagnac and at the Véo Muret and Thursday at the Le Méliès cinema in Castelmaurou.
David, a young peasant from Cantal, has just had an idea: to save his farm from bankruptcy, he is going to set up a cabaret on the farm. The show will be on stage and on the plate, with good local products. He is sure, it can only work! His relatives, his mother and especially his grandfather, are more skeptical…
Performed by Alban Ivanov, Sabrina Ouazani, Michèle Bernier, Bérengère Krief, “Les Folies fermières” is therefore inspired by this “fabulous true story” as described by Améris who had discovered the cabaret on the farm created by David Caumette in a report TV. “Sensitive to the difficulties of the peasant world, this story resonated in me as obvious: I was going to make a film of it. Three weeks later, I went to the Tarn to meet David. “recalls the director. David Caumette, for his part, explains that “Convinced that, following the formula, “Follies are the only things you never regret”, I then thought that the more crazy there would be in my project, the more would have a chance of saving the operation. I wanted to consent by actions, that if we let farmers diversify and innovate in France, we could then save them, them and their farms “
“Les folies fermières”: screenings in the presence of Jean-Pierre Améris and David Caumette (at the start or end of the screening): Wednesday 27 April, at 8 pm at the Mega CGrRBlagnac and at 8.30 pm at the Véo Muret. Thursday April 28 at 9 p.m. at the LeMéliès cinema in Castelmaurou