My Father's Glory

Starring:Philippe CaubÃ¨re, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, ThÃ©rÃ¨se Liotard, Julien Ciamaca, Victorien Delamare, Joris Molinas, BenoÃ®t Martin, Paul Crauchet, Pierre Maguelon, Michel Modo, Jean Rougerie, Jean-Pierre Darras, Victor Garrivier, Raoul Curet, Annick Danis, Louis Lalanne, Maxime Lombard, MichÃ¨le Loubet, RenÃ© Loyon
Director: Yves Robert
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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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

Description

Based on the best-selling memoirs of French novelist/filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this captivating recollection of a young boy's life in turn-of-the-century South of France is an intelligent, emotionallyrealistic account of a more idyllic time. A glorious celebration of family, this is one of the most beguiling films since charm went out of fashion (Time)! Among the intoxicating hills of rustic Bastide Neuve, young Marcel and his family experience an unforgettable summer holiday. Marcel,mystified by nature, eagerly turns to his father, Joseph, for an education on the ways of the wild.But Joseph comes up short in Marcel's eyes when cantankerous Uncle Julesan experienced woodsmanproves to be far more knowledgeable. To redeem himself, Joseph challenges Jules to a hunting matchto prove once and for all that he is not only the patriarch but a father who deserves respect.

Customer Reviews:

my all-time favorite story of childhood -.......2007-04-23

this isn't sappy or childish in any way - and it is profoundly affecting in how it shows life as it should be, and very easily Could Be. for those of us who did not have a precious and protected childhood, this is a chance to see what that might be like. this was very renewing for me to watch, at a time where life had lost its sweetness for me. i can't imagine anyone who would not love the time spent seeing this movie, again and again. this would make a great baby gift or holiday present for a young family -

beautiful film about childhood memories..............2007-02-10

My Father's Glory is, quite simply, a marvelous story about the simple (and profound) memories of childhood. This film is an adaptation of the memoirs of great, Provence-based writer Marcel Pagnol. Marcel (Julien Ciamaca)has two wonderful and loving parents, school teacher Joseph (Philippe Caubere) and seamstress Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). Marcel's early recollections of childhood are, both, heartwarming and tender. He remembers taking many walks with his Tante (Aunt) Rose (Therese Liotard) in the park, where Rose has a chance encounter with her future husband, Marcel's Uncle Jules (Didier Pan). He also remembers the arrival of his younger brother, Paul (Victorien Delamare), his companion and friend in many of life's adventures. This story also recounts the family's summer trip to the country (this ties into the significance of the title, but I won't ruin it for you).

At this day and age, where filmmaking runs rampant with cynicism and darkness, My Father's Glory is a refreshing alternative. This is a joy to watch.....it makes you feel happy to be alive.

you guys are awsome.......2006-04-11

THIS IS THE BEST SITE TO FIND THE MOVIES I REALLY WANT AND LIKE YOU GUYS HAVE HELPED ME OUT WITH HAVING THE STUFF I OREDRED AND ARE GENERLLY GOOD ABOUT GETTING THE STUFF FAIRLY QUICK. AND I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING HOME FOR UPS OR FEDEX KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. AND I'LL CONTINUE USEING AND TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT YOU FOLKS. BEST REGARDS SEAN S.

Idyll of Boyhood.......2003-11-26

This film is one of the most honest and beautiful accounts of family life and boyhood in the Auvergne and in Marseilles. The warmth of the Langudoc shimmers through the colours of the film as also through the lives of this happy family drenched in the browning sunlight in the last few years of the nineteenth and the first few of the twentieth century. This warmth is reflected also in the son Marcel's friendship with the young peasant boy, Lili, who modestly asks if he may keep the sailor suit which fits him. In a sense, this is a 'lower professional' childhood rather than the aristocratic one of the Tadzio in 'Death in Venice'. It is completed by a continuation film, equally wonderful, called 'Le Chateau de ma Mere' - and this, too is a must. The two together make for a wonderful winter evening and make you realise just what dross we are generally offered on the television.

Lavish, Beautiful, and Sentimental.......2003-07-07

My Father's Glory is the first of two films dealing with the novelist/filmmaker Marcel Pagnol's childhood. The film really does not have a plot. Marcel's parents Joseph, a beloved school teacher, and his mother Augustine, a dressmaker meet, fall in love, and get married. Soon afterward Marcel is born, as is his brother and sister. Marcel's family, along with his Uncle Jules and Aunt Rose, vacation in the South of France, and his father wins a hunting contest. On the surface there is not much to hold the film together. Yet the plot of the film is not what makes it so worthwhile. The film's chief strength is the way that each character is developed. We can see that Joseph is a good and descent man, a masterful teacher, and most especially a devoted father and husband. Young Marcel idolizes his father, and wants all others to realize the father's great qualities. The father is not perfect, and Marcel has questions about his doubt of all things religious. Marcel admires his mother as well, who is a nurturing and caring soul. The other major characters are both richly developed and varied.

The setting of the film is sumptuous. The small French town where Marcel and his family hail from seems realistic and the viewer can feel as if he/she has stepped back in time. The music adds to the film and perfectly blends with the scenes and characters.

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- LE CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE (98 MINUTES) - LA GLOIRE DE MON PÈRE (110 MINUTES)

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