Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline.
In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline.
Commissioned to film a TV documentary, Louis Malle travelled to the Midwest and interviewed the inhabitants of a farming community. Returning after Reagan’s election, Malle witnessed a town in crisis, revealing the effects of politics on its daily life. An eye-opening historical and human document.