Letters from My Windmill (film)

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Letters from My Windmill (film) - Wikipedia

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Letters from My Windmill
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marcel Pagnol
Screenplay by	Marcel Pagnol
Based on	Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Produced by	Marcel Pagnol
Cinematography	Willy Faktorovitch
Edited by	Monique Lacombe Jeanne Rongier Jacqueline Baltez
Music by	Henri Tomasi
Release date	5 November 1954 (1954-11-05)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	France
Languages	French, Occitan

Letters from My Windmill (French: Les lettres de mon moulin) is a 1954 French comedy-drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Rellys, Robert Vattier, Fernand Sardou and Édouard Delmont. Set in the countryside of Provence, the film is based on three tales from Alphonse Daudet's 1869 short story collection Letters from My Windmill: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" and "The Secret of Master Cornille". It premiered on 5 November 1954 and had 2,399,645 admissions in France.^[1]

In 1968 Pagnol made a television film based on another story from the same collection, Le curé de Cucugnan. Roger Crouzet was hired again and reprised his role as Daudet from Letters from My Windmill.^[2]

Cast

Prologue

Henri Crémieux as Honarat Grapazzi
Roger Crouzet as Alphonse Daudet
Cambis as Seguin

"The Three Low Masses"

Henri Vilbert as Dom Balaguere
Marcel Daxely as Garrigou
Yvonne Gamy as The Old Woman
Keller as The Marquis
René Sarvil as The Chef

"The Elixir of Father Gaucher"

Rellys as Father Gaucher
Robert Vattier as The Abbot
Christian Lude as Father Sylvestre
Fernand Sardou as M. Charnigue, apothecary

"The Secret of Master Cornille"

Édouard Delmont as Master Cornille
Roger Crouzet as Alphonse Daudet
Pierrette Bruno as Vivette

Critical reception

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote: "Like everything done by M. Pagnol, this collection of three little tales is full of the meat of human characters and the wine of the land from which they spring. It is spiced with the sharp and earthy humor that M. Pagnol has distilled from his long association with the Frenchmen who draw their life from her bare and rolling hills. And because of the way he shoots his pictures, in the buildings, streets and country of Provence, it has an air of authenticity about it that makes one feel an immediate participant in his scenes."^[3]

Brett Bowles, an Associate Professor of French at Indiana University, called it "incongruously burlesque."^[4]

References

^ "Les Lettres de mon moulin". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
^ "Le Curé de Cucugnan (TV)". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
^ Crowther, Bosley (1954-12-19). "French Treat; Pagnol's Letters From My Windmill Opens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
^ Brett Bowles, Marcel Pagnol, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 4

External links

Letters from My Windmill at marcel-pagnol.com

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