Bloody Milk

Petit Paysan (Bloody Milk, 2017) is a French drama directed by Hubert Charuel, available to watch online on iFILM. Pierre (Swann Arlaud) is thirty years old and runs a dairy farm. Not as a phase — this is the whole plan. The cows, the land, the daily routine.

When an outbreak of bovine disease spreads across France, one of his animals shows the symptoms. The law is unambiguous: report it, lose the herd. Pierre decides not to. His sister (Sara Giraudeau) is a vet — she knows the rules and knows what her brother is doing, and neither of them says it out loud. Charuel's debut claimed the Prix Louis Delluc, France's oldest critics' prize. Stream Petit Paysan (2017) online on iFILM.