Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The two films are inextricably bound, and were planned and filmed at the same time with most of the same cast and crew. Cesar montand, in his last great performance is a crafty. Only the people are ugly, as if to underline the theme. Directed by claude berri, it is the second of two films adapted from the 1966 twovolume novel by marcel pagnol, who wrote it based on his own earlier film of the same title. Staring yves montand, daniel auteuil, gerard depardieu and elisabeth depardieu. A musthave dvd duo, for all serious collectors of great films. In 2000, jacques nahum produced marius, fanny, and cesar for french television. Its the story of how two provincial french farmers systematically destroy the happiness of a man who comes out from the city to till the land. I checked on imdb but it just gives a list of general locations. I would rather discuss these films without giving away too much, because part of the beauty of the films, particularly manon des sources, are the plots twists and revealed secrets. Vaugines made news a few months ago as the last secret residence of peter mayles of the a year in provence fame. The book manon des sources manon of the spring was made into two wonderful french films directed by claude berri. French director claude berri and cinematographer bruno nuytten set their twopart morality play against a backdrop of gorgeous french countryside full of colorchanging leaves and wildflowers, tangled thickets and bubbling rivulets.
Petit et laid, ugolin, le dernier des soubeyran, revient du service militaire. With yves montand, gerard depardieu, daniel auteuil, elisabeth depardieu. Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. Foodie fantastic, fun and feel good starring the ever wonderful helen mirren and set in saintantoninnobleval. The two volumes are known together as leau des collines the water of the hills. Apr 01, 2009 the best french language films part 5. Met yves montand, gerard depardieu en daniel auteuil. This allowed berri to show the dramatic seasonal changes of the provencal landscape. Intent on growing expensive flowers, he conspires with his uncle, cesar yves montand, to gain access to a hidden spring on a neighboring property.
Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. Two 1920s farmers engage in a bitter rivalry as one tries to tend to a plot of land and the ot. A beauty spot immortalised by film and novel faces an influx of concrete. The film takes place in rural provence, where two local farmers scheme to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Film illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the best. The film takes place in rural provence, where two local farmers plot to trick a newcomer out. What better way to prepare for your trip than to watch a movie filmed in the area.
The village and manons well were filmed in mirabeau, in the luberon. The film starred three of frances most prominent actors. They are adaptations of marcel pagnols novels of the same name. Considering that this film is from a script by the great marcel pagnol who was responsible for many of the best french films, its not at all surprising that this is a wonderful film. In a small provencal village, where water is scarce and the earth dry, only one piece of property possesses an underground spring to irrigate the soiland the wily, greedy cesar yves montand will do anything to get hold of it. His story, set in the bucolic hillside of provence, is a lesson in the power of nature of the land in its capacity for sustaining life and destroying it. The first is a tale about greed, deception, murder, jealousy, and undeserved anguish the sequel. When a film is set in a lovely, scenic bit of french countryside, its easy to assume that its going to be a sappy affair. So my advice is to see this film and then rush out and see the followup film. Each of the principal actors in the cast does an outstanding job interpreting his or her role. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has. Both are filmed in provence near vaugines, about 10 minutes east of the famous market town lourmarin.
Je ne detiens aucun droits dauteur sur cette oeuvre. Beautifully filmed drama set in provence in the 1920s starring gerard depardieu at his best. The film takes place in rural provence, where two local farmers plot to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. In my opinion, one of the best film series film and sequel ever made. Walking in pagnols footsteps travel and tourism in provence. If you head to the closeby village vaugines, you will recognise plenty of the movie locations. In a rural french village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. In this acclaimed french drama, the enterprising ugolin soubeyran daniel auteuil returns to his native countryside after the serving in the military. It is a deceptively simple tale and for that reason was likely to appeal to a broader and more adult base than many of the other films around at the time.