Letters From My Windmill

Noted French director Pagnol adapted three stories by 19th century Gallic writer Alphonse Daudet for this fine episodic film. Crouzet plays the writer, who comes to an abandoned windmill in Provence in order to write his stories. This is the link which holds the film together, a device Pagnol uses with some imagination, as the writer is incorporated into one episode. The first story involves the adventures of a gourmand clergyman who has a mass stolen from him by the Devil. The second, and best of the three, is the story of some monks who manufacture liqueur, so they can raise the funds to do the Lord's work. The final tale is of an impoverished miller who nearly k...