Thick Skinned

In a drunken act of rebellion, brothers Roland and Gérard decide to burn down the family farm. Unbeknownst to them, a homeless man had taken refuge there and perishes in the fire. Roland takes the blame and is imprisoned. Ten years later, he is released and finds that Gérard has rebuilt the farm, where he now lives with his wife Annie and their daughter. The simmering tension between the brothers, with Annie caught in the middle, drives this drama, where the oppressive influence of the rural environment on human nature is ever-present.

Duration: 90’
Production year: 1989
Country: FR
Language: FR Subtitles: EN

Cannes Film Festival 1989 – Un Certain Regard
Angers Film Festival 1989 – Audience Award

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Patricia Mazuy

Born in 1960 near Dijon, France, Mazuy began her connection with cinema at the film club of the School of Commerce where she was studying. After dropping out and emigrating to Los Angeles, in the early 1980s, Mazuy met Agnès Varda and Sabine Mamou, who hired her for Jacques Demy's Une chambre en ville (1982). In 1984, she began working with Varda, sharing the editing credits on Varda's renowned film Sans toit ni loi (1985). Mazuy's first feature film, Peaux de vaches, premiered in 1989 at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section and won her the César for Best First Work. After eleven years working in television, Mazuy returned to Cannes and the Un Certain Regard section with the film Saint-Cyr, which established her in contemporary French cinema. Realism, based on the emotions of the characters, with a fiercely clear vision of human relationships and the way they are moulded by the spaces they inhabit, marks Mazuy's work, which finds its favourite setting in the rural world. Her seventh and most recent feature, La Prisonnière de Bordeaux, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Filmmakers' Fortnight in 2024.

Original title: Peaux de vaches

Patricia Mazuy

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