La fille du puisatier (The well-digger's daughter) 1940 - A lesser-known Pagnol movie with wonderful performances

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IMDB rating: 7,4

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Main Cast: Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day

"The Well-Digger's Daughter served to reunite star Raimu and writer/director Marcel Pagnol, who'd earlier scored an international hit with the 'Fanny trilogy' (Fanny, Marius, Cesar). The title character played by Josette Day, is impregnated by aviator George Gray. Her father, Raimu, orders Josette out of the house so that her younger sisters won't be likewise 'corrupted'. There's many a moment of pathos and hilarity before Raimu realizes the folly of his behavior. Filmed in 1940, just after France's acquiescence to their Nazi conquerors, The Well-Digger's Daughter didn't make it to the US until 1946." - www.allmovie.com

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La femme du boulanger (The baker's wife) 1938 - The best of Pagnol's films

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030127/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDB rating: 7,6

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Main Cast: Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin

"The Baker's Wife (La Femme de Boulanger), though based on a novel by Jean Giono, was specially tailored by writer/director Marcel Pagnol for the talents of the incomparable Raimu. The Baker's Wife is a movie with a core of delicacy and fragility contained beneath a boisterous surface. In terms of plot, there is hardly anything special about it, but Baker is about much more than its sparse story. It's about the love, loneliness and redemption, about the power to hurt and the power to heal, and about the importance of connecting both with another person and with a group of people. Pagnol gets these themes across in a subtle manner (for the most part), so that their lessons are absorbed rather than observed by the viewer. He also creates a wonderfully realized community, full of supporting characters who are so precisely defined that they come across as living people rather than caricatures. More importantly, he has created a solid anchor around which to build the film - and has had the good fortune of getting the invaluable Raimu to inhabit Aimable the baker. Raimu's performance is pure gold; there is never a false note, never a moment when the actor is not perfectly in tune with the character. And yet the performance never feels studied; indeed, there are moments that startle and delight by their unexpectedness. Most importantly, Raimu makes the audience feel the intense love and devotion he has for his wife and allows them to believe that he will take her back. It's a rich performance that grows in complexity with repeated viewings. Baker is a fine accomplishment on all levels, but it is Raimu's contribution which raises it to art." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-bakers-wife-v3787/

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Cesar 1936 - The third and final part of Pagnol's Fanny trilogy

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027489/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
IMDB rating: 7,9

Director: Marcel Pagnol
Main Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, Paul Dullac

"The final film in Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy (following Marius and Fanny), this drama follows Cesariot (Andre Fouche), an 18-year-old who has recently been led to believe that his father, Honore (Fernand Charpin), is not really his father at all. Honore dies without telling Cesariot about his true parentage, but after the funeral, his mother Fanny (Orane Demazis) breaks the news that Cesar (Raimu), who he had always been told was his godfather, is in fact his grandfather. Cesariot asks Cesar for the truth; the old man tells him that his real dad is Marius (Pierre Fresnay), an auto mechanic, and tells him how to find the garage where Marius works. Cesariot sets out to meet Marius, but when he stops by the garage, Marius isn't in. His boss, Fernand (Doumel), decides to have some fun and tells Cesariot that Marius is a notorious outlaw; the boy buys it hook, line, and sinker and returns home heartbroken. When Marius finds out what happened, he realizes that he must find the boy and see if the damage can still be repaired. While any of the three films in Pagnol's trilogy can be enjoyed separately, Cesar in particular is best appreciated when seen alongside the other two films." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/cesar-v8774

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Fanny 1932 - The second chapter in Pagnol's Fanny Trilogy

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022877/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
IMDB rating: 7,6

Director: Marc Allegret
Main Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin

"In this sequel to Marcel Pagnol's Marius, which picks up roughly where the first film left off, sailor Marius (Pierre Fresney) has left for the sea, while his girlfriend Fanny (Orane Demazis) is pregnant with his child. Through she still loves Marius, Fanny bows to the pleas of her parents and agrees to marry Panisse (Fernand Charpin), an elderly sail maker, so that her baby will have a name and a father at home. Marius' father Cesar (Raimu) tries to keep Fanny's marriage and the child that Marius fathered a secret from him, but to no avail; when Marius learns of Fanny's predicament, he comes home as quickly as possible. While Marius and Fanny want to reconcile, Fanny's parents will hear nothing of it, and Panisse refuses to give Fanny up, declaring that while he is not the biological father of the child, the baby is his son in every other sense. With a heavy heart, Cesar advises his son to return to the life of the sea, and a heartbroken Marius follows his father's advice." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/fanny-v16745

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Marius 1931 - The charming first part of Pagnol's Fanny trilogy

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022125/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
IMDB rating: 7,7

Director: Alexander Korda
Main Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Orane Demazis

"In this touching romance, the first in Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles or Fanny trilogy - the other two being Fanny and Cesar - Pierre Fresnay stars as Marius, a young man tending bar who dreams of a life at sea. Because he so desires to become a sailor, he cannot commit to marriage even though he loves Fanny (Orane Demazis). When the rich Honore Panisse (Charpin) proposes to Fanny, Marius becomes enraged, but still refuses to ask for her hand. At the bar, Fanny confesses her love for him and tells Marius she has rejected Honore's proposal. Marius admits his love for her as well and they retire to a back room to make love. When Marius is told a spot has opened up on a departing ship, he declines to sign on, not wanting to leave Fanny, but he still refuses to marry her. Fanny overhears the conversation, and not wanting to hold Marius back from the life at sea he so desires, tells Marius she has changed her mind and accepted Honore's proposal. Heartbroken, Marius rushes to pack and catches the departing ship." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/marius-v31479

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