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The Baker’s Wife (Country: France; Year: 1938; Director: Marcel Pagnol; Writer: Marcel Pagnol)
A baker refuses to bake bread after his young wife runs away with a handsome shepherd. What begins as a personal humiliation soon becomes a communal crisis.
A Magnificent Life (The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol) (Country: France, Belgium, US, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Sylvain Chomet; Writer: Sylvain Chomet, Marcel Pagnol; Stars: French version: Laurent Lafitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Thierry Garcia, Anaïs Petit, Vincent Fernandel, Véronique Philipponnat. English version: Matthew Gravelle, Lu Corfield, Jonathan Keeble, Celyn Jones, Jess Nesling, Flora Montgomery)
Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.
Full Review See: Sylvain Chomet on animating Marcel Pagnol's career in A Magnificent Life
Topaze (Year: 1951; Director: Marcel Pagnol; Writer: Marcel Pagnol)
At imid and ineffectual tutor is dismissed from a boarding school after refusing to compromise his principles and reinvents himself as a cunning opportunist.
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