STARTING OVER AGAIN

SOPHIE Deraspe's Canadian-French film Bergers (English title Shepherds) is about the existential angst and latent desires of many city-slickers who find themselves on a perennial treadmill when it comes to their profession.

- NAMRATA JOSHI

How wonderful would it be to disappear from the everyday traps the familiar places and people, the daily grind and routine and retreat into a radically opposite world where the pace is slow, and a job is about physical effort rather than intense mind games. In other words, it is about simplicity and frugality rather than materialism, about contentment than the pursuit of success.

The film won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival warn him that the "cradle of pastoralism" doesn't exist and that industrial farming has spoiled the grasslands.