Provencal, but not provincial. (centenary of the birth of filmmaker Marcel Pagnol)

Insight on the News | October 2, 1995| | Copyright

On the centenary of his birth, French filmmaker Marcel Pagnol is as popular as ever.

Playing to full houses this summer in New York and Washington, where the Museum of Modern Art and the American Film Institute featured retrospectives feting the centenary of his birth, the films of Marcel Pagnol are as popular as ever. But the F'rench director's works have always been held in high esteem by American audiences. La Femme du boulanger, or The Baker's Wife, was selected by the New York Film Critics Circle as best foreign film in 1940; it went on to break records in art ...

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