Pierre's mother had shown little interest in him after the birth of his sister Victoire, and his parents – living in Aunay-sur-Odon – split up when he was four years old, which had a strong mental effect on him. He was sent to Beaulieu prison in Caen, where he killed himself in 1840. In 1835 the agricultural worker Rivière (1815-40) carried out the murders in a small village in Calvados (14), Normandy, where he was born. This is in fact a documentary-style study of the murderer's actions, based on documents put together by Michel Foucault.
Gruesome, though, this re-creation of the twenty-year-old Rivière's actions this film is certainly is not. ' I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother.' is how one DVD renders the translation of Pierre Rivière's words, although this doesn't convey the gruesomeness of the slitting of the throats of his relatives.
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