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March 5, 2023.. #movieoftheday is Marcel Pagnol's " La Gloire de mon Père ."
A poetic novel about his family and his early years rather than a literal autobiography, Pagnol opens with the stories of his two parents, Joseph and Augustine, and his own arrival in 1895 as their first child in the little town of Aubagne among the mountains of Provence . A school teacher there, the fiercely secular and socialist Joseph then gets a better job in the bustling city of Marseille . There his mother's sister Rose is courted by the fiercely conservative and Catholic Jules, who marries her. Despite striking many sparks off each other, the two brothers-in-law overall enjoy each other's company. So much so that in 1904 they agree to rent a remote farmhouse outside the village of La Treille , where the two families can spend their summer together and get back to the simple pleasures of rural life. After a long struggle up mountain tracks, with their belongings on a mule, they reach what for young Marcel is an earthly paradise. He falls instantly in love with the wild landscape, its distinctive vegetation and its abundant wildlife.
Score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjp0CAKQgJ8&list=PLCCeRiW5WvwlA5msr1rOaXQ3pMyH4EnHz
A poetic novel about his family and his early years rather than a literal autobiography, Pagnol opens with the stories of his two parents, Joseph and Augustine, and his own arrival in 1895 as their first child in the little town of Aubagne among the mountains of Provence . A school teacher there, the fiercely secular and socialist Joseph then gets a better job in the bustling city of Marseille . There his mother's sister Rose is courted by the fiercely conservative and Catholic Jules, who marries her. Despite striking many sparks off each other, the two brothers-in-law overall enjoy each other's company. So much so that in 1904 they agree to rent a remote farmhouse outside the village of La Treille , where the two families can spend their summer together and get back to the simple pleasures of rural life. After a long struggle up mountain tracks, with their belongings on a mule, they reach what for young Marcel is an earthly paradise. He falls instantly in love with the wild landscape, its distinctive vegetation and its abundant wildlife.
Score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjp0CAKQgJ8&list=PLCCeRiW5WvwlA5msr1rOaXQ3pMyH4EnHz
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