MANON OF THE SPRING

MANON OF THE SPRING
One Night Only – Wednesday, September 23 – 5:30pm
SBIFF’s Film Center

Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Won the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The second installment in the sprawling rural tragedy that began with JEAN DE FLORETTE, MANON OF THE SPRING follows a beautiful but shy shepherdess (Emmanuelle Béart) as she plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father’s land caused his death years earlier. Taken together, these masterful adaptations of the novel by Marcel Pagnol stand as high-water marks of the French cinema, recapturing the rich humanist tradition of its classical era.

Directed by Claude Berri
Written by Claude Berri, Gérard Brach (based on the work of Marcel Pagnol)
Starring Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Hippolyte Girardot
1h 53m
1986