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Peter and the Farm (2016) is a English movie. Tony Stone has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Peter and the Farm (2016) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
Peter Dunning is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land's 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving Peter with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-won agricultural wisdom even as he doubts the meaning of the work he is fated to perform until death. Haunted by alcoholism and regret, Peter veers between elation and despair, often suggesting to the filmmakers his own suicide as a narrative device. He is a tragedian on a stage it has taken him most of his life to build, and which now threatens to collapse from under him. At once a postcard from paradise and a cautionary tale for our times, Peter and The Farm sifts through the potential energy of a human life, that which is used and that which is squandered.
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Peter and the Farm (2016) Reviews
Insightful, moving, and worth your time
I found this documentary on an organic farmer in Vermont who lives and farms alone in his latter years to be rich, moving, and informative. Surrounded by his beautiful acreage, he suffers all the same from loneliness, regret, and a sense of futility. Yet there are days when all 38 years of his efforts seem worth it. A fine character study, and an intriguing look at the life of a farmer in an age when most people live in urban settings and haven't a clue about what's involved in a life spent close to nature and the cycle of seasons.
Honest documentary about one man, his farm and his soul
The bravery of this man impressed me. He exposes himself totally in this documentary about the difficulties of running his farm in the midst of mental problems, struggling with drinking and living in the ruin of divorce and lost happiness. If you think that bravery is running away or solving things with being a macho man or by climbing to the top on the heads of your competitors, think again. This is real life, there are moments of happiness, but there are cracks (big), because that's how the light gets in (quote: Leonard Cohen).
Peter becomes the farm
A troubled alcoholic farmer lets his mind wander to an onlooking documentary team who film him in situ at his bucolic Vermont farm. Peter Dunning's ruminations range from the bitter to the bittersweet to the absurd. What's remarkable is how Tony Stone conveys the link between Dunning's worldview, which can oscillate from contentment to threats of suicide, as being inextricably linked to the physical and mental toils of the farm, and the weather which ranges from tundra to balmy sunshine. What lingers is Dunning's assertion that he is now fully bodily and spiritually connected to the farm, so much so that he has become the farm.
Thought Provoking
I completely agree with the_oak and WildBillWriter in their assessments of this documentary. Being close to an alcoholic, it was difficult to watch at times, but it was worth it. I found myself asking a lot of questions i.e. which came first, the alcoholism or the isolation? Does it even really matter? With all of his struggles beginning as a young person, its a testament to the human spirit that he has fought on for so long. His story was moving, and he's easy to connect with, even though he sometimes tries to push everyone away. He's so authentically himself on camera; its amazing to watch. If you have any experience with farming, its easy to understand his anxiety of having a market for his goods and being responsible for so much, all day, every day.. I hope he's healed at least somewhat since this documentary.