Monday, December 4, 2006
my father's house
I also watched The Glory of My Father (La Gloire de mon pere) while knittingknittingknitting this weekend. Marcel Pagnol wrote it about a summer vacation at the turn of the last century when he and his family rented a house in Provence with his mother's sister and her husband. Part coming-of-age and part joy-of-family, the colors are vivid, the emotions are simple and clear, and it's all charming and gentle. Pagnol was married for thirty years to one Jacqueline Bouvier (evidently not "our" Jacqueline Bouvier although I must look into that) and he was the first filmmaker to be elected into the Academie Francaise, high prestige indeed, for having written Marius, Fanny, Manon des sources, Jean de Florette, and many others. Now I have to see some of those others and find out what the fuss is all about!
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