In the mid-1980s, two French dramas,
Jean de Florette and its sequel,
Manon of the Spring, took the film world by storm and swept up numerous Cesars. Adaptations of one giant seminal novel by French writer/director/novelist Marcel Pagnol, the sagas wove an epic tale of greed, betrayal, and family loyalty in rural France.
The Well-Digger’s Daughter comes billed as a follow-up to those two earlier classics, and will invite innumerable comparisons, for it has some of the same pedigree. Adapted from another Pagnol work -- this one an original screenplay that he wrote and directed in 1940 -- it was helmed by, scripted by, and stars the talented...
Released:
2012
Rated:
n/a
Length:
105 mins