For those who missed the first half of the Pagnol family portrait, the second part works on its own terms. But perhaps because of the utterly unsensational nature of the first film in the two-part cycle, Hartford audiences stayed away.įor those who saw and enjoyed “My Father’s Glory,” “My Mother’s Castle” holds out even greater pleasures - after a too-sweet opening. It’s a pity that these two deliberate and episodic but utterly charming views of a boy’s life at the turn of the century could not have been seen together, as was originally planned. “My Father’s Glory” has just departed, but now “My Mother’s Castle” arrives to continue Yves Robert’s loving film chronicles of a vanished way of French life, as fondly remembered by the writer-playwright-filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, the laureate of Provence.
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