A decade ago, veteran filmmaker Jean-Henri Meunier decamped with his family to settle in the remote hilltop village of Najac, in the Aveyron region of southwestern France. On his visits home between jobs, he would stroll around, talking to the local people, getting to know the way of life, and inevitably he began to take his camera with him. From the hundreds of hours of footage that resulted, Meunier compiled the award-winning 2004 documentary "La Vie comme elle va" (As Life Goes By), a rich portrayal of country life and the characters who inhabit it.

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