Astride Bergès-Frisbey in a still from La fille du puisatier (The Well-Digger's Daughter), the directorial debut of French film star Daniel Auteuil. It's a re-make of Marcel Pagnol's 1940 classic rural comedy. Auteuil stars along with Kad Merad, Sabine Azema and Astride Berges-Frisbey. Review by Jeff Heinrich running Feb. 3, 2012. Credit: Seville Films.
Photograph by: Seville Films , Postmedia News
The Well Digger’s Daughter
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Directed and written by: Daniel Auteuil
Parental guidance: Mature theme
Running time: 107 minutes
Rating: 3½ stars out of 5
(In French with English subtitles)
There’s a quality to the countryside of southern France — the pure yellows of the sunlight, perhaps, or the easy red poppies blowing in fields of long grasses — that evokes a feeling of richness. It’s not necessarily a place of joie de vivre, but there’s a calming mood of savoir-faire: here is a place in which the people, the landscape, the food, not to mention the faded floral wallpaper, are at least coherent.
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Astride Bergès-Frisbey in a still from La fille du puisatier (The Well-Digger's Daughter), the directorial debut of French film star Daniel Auteuil. It's a re-make of Marcel Pagnol's 1940 classic rural comedy. Auteuil stars along with Kad Merad, Sabine Azema and Astride Berges-Frisbey. Review by Jeff Heinrich running Feb. 3, 2012. Credit: Seville Films.
Photograph by: Seville Films , Postmedia News
