My Father's Glory
by Yves Robert
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Actor: Didier Pain, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Philippe Caubère, Thérèse LiotardDirector: Yves Robert
Brand: CAUBERE,PHILLIPPE
Cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne
Cinematographer: Eric Vallée
Writer: Yves Robert
Producer: Alain Poiré
Writer: Jérôme Tonnerre
Writer: Louis Nucéra
Writer: Marcel Pagnol
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of My Father's Glory
DVD Review: Pagnol's autobiographical story reveals the delightful, languid innocence of a bygone era
Summary: 5 Stars
This film, titled in English "The Glory of my Father" is a dramatisation of part of Marcel Pagnol's childhood before the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The narrative is revealed through the lens of how a child sees the world to the backdrop of idealism, faith in the future and in scientific advancement personified by Marcel's father, a professional teacher, anti-cleric (the cause of much amusing confrontation) and optimist. The film is funny, charming, occasionally poignant and the characters are finely observed. It has a good script and is paced just right. The occasional voice-over by the now-adult narrator looking back to the events described decades earlier works well and reminds the viewer he is watching a real memoir, not fiction.
After a 45-minute run-through from Marcel's birth and infancy, the main action moves to one long, idyllic summer holiday taken by the extended family in a remote region of Provence where they rent an isolated house set in the stunning, wild landscape. Marcel's journey of discovery of the wild region and how to survive it in the company of Lili, a boy his own age, and his simultaneous idolization of his father, who he sees as the fount of all knowledge, makes for an absorbing and life-affirming viewing experience; though without the serious exploration of human nature and fateful consequence of actions explored in the "Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources" epic, this film has a lighter touch. The wild Provencal landscapes revealed through the cinematography though are every bit as stunning.
This film is good, if not "great". It's a fine observation of human nature seen through the eyes of a child, and of a time past where family bonds and close social community was everything experienced; pre-internet, pre-TV, pre-radio, where children ran free and the wide, dangerous world was a distant thing rarely travelled or experienced by most. These innocent days were shattered by the First World War, after which nothing would ever be the same.
This would be a good date movie, curled up on the couch with a bottle of wine. The subtitling is pretty much true to the original (as an example, the cartman's line probably never heard in any other film "Being blind and wearing sunglasses would be like looking up a mole's arse" is a literal translation of the line spoken in French). If you like European cinema, or this type of richly textured, witty, non-sentimental but life-affirming movie French cinema seems to be so good at, then you'll like this film and will probably watch it more than once.
Description of My Father's Glory
A young boy spends a special summer in the country with his family and strengthens the bond he has with his father.Genre: Foreign Film - French
Rating: G
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD
Among the bounteous literary and cinematic legacy of Marcel Pagnol, poet laureate of Provence, is a two-volume memoir, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. The enormous success of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri's 1986 remakes of two Pagnol films from the '50s) encouraged Yves Robert to shoot another Pagnol diptych. Like Garlaban, the great bluff overhanging Pagnol's childhood home, the result is "less than a mountain, much more than a hill." The first part, My Father's Glory, spans Marcel's early years from infancy to preteen. The film keeps faith with its juvenile subject, leaping from one quirky detail of landscape, character, or biography to the next--whatever has caught the child's fancy and lingered in the adult narrator's memory. This makes for episodic storytelling, but it's an appropriate way to reflect childhood experience, and it doesn't prevent Robert from developing loving portraits of Pagnol's nearest and dearest, or paying luminous tribute to the Provençal countryside Pagnol loved. You can almost feel the sunshine, smell the wild thyme. --Richard T. Jameson
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