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Peter and the Farm


In Theatres, On Demand and on iTunes November 4

     

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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.
-Synopsis courtesy Film Society of Lincoln Center

PRODUCTION TEAM

Directed, Photographed, and Produced by
Tony Stone

Produced by
Melissa Auf der Maur

Photographed by
Nathan Corbin

Assistant Directed by
Dylan Kraus

Edited by
Maxwell Paparella

Produced by
Jake Perlin
Andrew Adair

CAST

 

“FOUR STARS. Dunning recounts spellbinding tales—he’s a hell of a character.” – Nigel Smith, The Guardian

“A BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY with a rueful, cantankerous yet hugely charismatic figure at its center, rendered with a texture as rich as the soil through his fingers.” – Scott Tobias, Variety

“A NEAR-MASTERPIECE. A consistently lively and surprising film. Powerfully sad but very funny, too.” – Noel Murray, A.V. Club

“BEAUTIFULLY OBSERVED. A penetrating portrait of a complicated personality, inseparable from his environment.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Entertaining and heartbreaking.” – Noel Murray, Indiewire

 
Date for DVD release subject to change.