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French. Budget. €12.5 million [1] Box office. $12.6 million [1] The Well-Digger's Daughter ( French: La Fille du puisatier) is a 2011 French Romantic Drama film. Daniel Auteuil makes his directorial debut as he stars alongside Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and Nicolas Duvauchelle. [2] The ...
Jul 16, 2012 · There’s nothing egregiously wrong with The Well-Digger’s Daughter, which marks the debut of veteran actor Daniel Auteuil as a writer-director in a remake of a 1940 film by Marcel Pagnol, who with both pen and camera served as the Dickens of early 20th-century southern France.
Writing the script and playing one of the title characters, Daniel Auteuil plods about in a peasant jerkin playing a good-hearted salt-of-the-earth type who’s methodically raising five daughters on his meager well-digger’s earnings. But hélas! the prettiest, Patricia (played by a pallid Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), gets knocked up by a ...
Dec 11, 2011 · It’s got Daniel Auteuil striding moodily (yet approachably) through the Provençal countryside so it must be Pagnol, right? Up to a point. He is best known to us as the author of Jean de Florette and Manon des sources. On paper, this is vintage Marcel Pagnol – a remake of the writer-film-maker’s 1940 film La fille du puisatier, faithful down to large chunks of dialogue – but on screen ...
Oct 3, 2012 · In the south of France, before World War I, we meet a hard-working well-digger named Pascal Amoretti (Daniel Auteuil), whose wife dies, leaving him with six daughters. A rich Parisian woman becomes impressed by the second oldest, Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), and pays for her to come to Paris and attend a convent school. At 18, with a cultured Parisian accent and stylish clothes, she ...
The Well-Digger's Daughter: Directed by Daniel Auteuil. With Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. In 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.
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Jul 19, 2012 · The film is a remake of Marcel Pagnol's 1940 movie. Kino Lorber. The Well-Digger's Daughter. Director: Daniel Auteuil. Genre: Drama. Running Time: 105 minutes. Not rated. With: Jean-Pierre ...
