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The Baker's Wife (French: La femme du boulanger) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It is based on the novel Blue Boy by French author Jean Giono and became the basis of the American musical The Baker's Wife. It tells how the peace of a Provençal village is shattered when the baker's wife runs off with a handsome ...
The Baker's Wife: Directed by Marcel Pagnol. With Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin, Robert Vattier. A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.
The Baker’s Wife. The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provençal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker (the inimitable Raimu, praised by no ...
Jul 18, 2019 · The Baker’s Wife, inspired by an episode in Giono’s autobiographical 1932 novel Blue Boy, is a perfect combination of these two tendencies. The core of the film is Giono’s tale of violent passion, set within a mythologized Provence where nature rules the human condition.
Raimu in “The Baker’s Wife,” a film written and directed by Marcel Pagnol. Synopsis. When the village baker refuses to bake bread because his unfaithful wife has left with a handsome shepherd… The individual drama takes on a collective dimension.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Shortly after middle-aged baker Aimable (Raimu) settles down in a new village in Provence, his young and beautiful wife, Aurelie...
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Directed by Marcel Pagnol. In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore.
