If you don't know the real story behind the cinematic story, as I didn't, I suggest you keep it that way. Watching it unfold across the course of this 110-minute drama is absorbing.

This is a family story, intimate and painful, rather than something abstract. Bergeon directs carefully, without the flourishes that often tempt young directors.

A solemn true story of agricultural strife.

In the Name of the Land is another tragic portrait of the struggling French rural sector...