Cousin Jules
1972 ![France](/imgs/countries2/FR.png)
![France](/imgs/countries2/FR.png)
Documentary
One of the great, unheralded achievements in documentary, Cousin Jules was the result of five years of painstaking work by director Dominique Benicheti and cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn. Over that period, they photographed in Cinemascope and recorded in stereophonic sound the daily lives of Jules and his wife—French farmers living alone in the countryside. The result is a ravishing, totally immersive work, in which we not only ... [+]