Peter and the Farm
Transfixing in its workplace detail and haunting in its harsh commentary on a solitary existence.
Peter and the Farm
Peter Dunning is a rugged individualist in the extreme, a hard-drinking loner and former artist who has burned bridges with his wives and children and whose only company, even on harsh winter nights, are the sheep, cows, and pigs he tends on his Vermont farm. Peter is also one of the most complicated, sympathetic documentary subjects to come along in some time, a product of the 1960s counterculture whose poetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone’s documentary is both haunting and heartbreaking, a mosaic of its singular subject’s transitory memories and reflections—however funny, tragic, or angry they may be.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
92
Language
English
Director
Tony Stone
FEATURED REVIEW
Scott Tobias, Variety
Eco-conscious consumers may rush to the farmer’s market for local, organic meats, fruits, and vegetables, but “Peter and the Farm” suggests that they might spare a thought for the tormented soul who reaps the harvest. For more than 35 years, Peter Dunning has presided over the 187-acre Mile Hill ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 11.18.16 - 11.24.16
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