Event

The Well Digger's Daughter

Vic Skolnick SUNDAY SCHMOOZE Brunch, Film, and Discussion
Bagel Brunch at 10am Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with Fred Craden

Buy Tickets$10 Members $15 Public
Tickets also available at 800-838-3006,
or at the CAC Box Office

Join Sunday Schmooze host Fred Craden for a screening and discussion of Daniel Auteuil's mesmerizing adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1940s classic about a father and daughter who are pulled apart by her passion for a young pilot

Twenty-five years after rising to international acclaim in Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, Daniel Auteuil returns to the world of Marcel Pagnol for his first work as director with this celebrated remake of the 1940s classic. Auteuil stars as the eponymous well-digger Pascale, a widower living with his six daughters in the Provence countryside at the start of World War I. His eldest, Patricia (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), has returned home from Paris to help raise her sisters, and Pascale dreams of marrying her off to his loyal assistant Felipe (Kad Merad). But when she's impregnated by a wealthy young pilot (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who promptly abandons her for the frontlines, Pascale is left to contend with the consequences. An exquisitely crafted, sun-drenched melodrama, set to a score by Academy Award-nominee Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech), the film captures all the warmth and humanist spirit of Marcel Pagnol's original work. (France, 2011, 105 min., color, 35mm, In French with English Subtitles Director/Co-Writer: Daniel Auteuil Co-Writer: Marcel Pagnol Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kad Merad, Sabene Azema, Nicolas Duvauchelle)