The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol

January. 01,0001      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A modern fable, the animated biopic will chart the epic life of Pagnol, a celebrated French novelist, playwright and filmmaker who grew up in a middle-class household in Marseille and became one of the world’s most inventive and prolific artists from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Throughout his long career, Pagnol’s books were translated into more than 50 languages and sold more than 150 million units. Pagnol also built his own studio and distribution company, pioneering talking pictures and helping shape the global cinema industry at the time. His movies, including his best-known Provence-set melodrama trilogy “Marius,” “Fanny” and “César,” reached more than 200 admissions worldwide.

Reviews

FeistyUpper
0001/01/01

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Curapedi
0001/01/02

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Casey Duggan
0001/01/03

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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Ella-May O'Brien
0001/01/04

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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