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What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I saw this film in France in 1990 and I was conquered by its beauty and the way its story gracefully flowed in front of the sumptuous background of beautiful Provence. Here is a film that relies on the simple pleasure of watching people living their happy life. pagnol's stories always were brilliant account of the Provence's charm and beauty. This is french cinema at its best! This film, together with its even better sequel "Le château de ma mère" is a concentrate of Provence for those who didn't have the time or the means to see it for real. Go rent it if you can find it in a repertoire video club! i saw it 3 times.

I saw the movie in the early 90-ties and bought the tape. This movie and the other one (le château.....) are very often in my mind as a resemblance of a charming french family. I loved the beautiful scenery outside, well known to me as a regular visitor and lover of the region. Even the house and school interior are like they are in some dusty forgotten villages. Then there is also the very exact copy of daily life in France. But the most of all is the family life between the father mother and son. And at the end the enormous proud feelings of the boy when his father shoots a pheasant, or partridge, i don't know anymore. This movie left a very good feeling for a long time. Sadly I could not watch the movie a second time because the tape has retarded very badly by some reason and i didn't manage to find another copy of the movie with dutch subtitles. So if anyone....PLEASE!!.

This beautiful, charming work (and its companion MY MOTHER'S CASTLE) is lifted from the memoirs of filmmaker/screenwriter Marcel Pagnol.It is a loving, romanticized recreation of Pagnol's childhood trips to the south of France.Director Yves Robert ices every scene with sweet affection and a seemingly effortless attention to detail.There are so many moving, heart-tugging scenes.Describing them all would spoil the confection.I'll mention one. Young Marcel accompanies his father, Joseph, a school teacher, to school one day. Not believing that Marcel can read already, Joseph writes a simple declaration of his love for Marcel on the blackboard. Marcel then surprises his father by reading out loud what his father wrote. It is such a touching, affecting scene.MY FATHER'S GLORY is bursting to the seams with such magic.Vladimir Cosma's score perfectly captures the period and tone of Pagnol's memories.Simply exquisite.

"Loving voices of old companions, stealing out of the past once more, And the sound of the dear old music, soft and sweet as in days of yore"*Based on "Memories of Childhood", autobiographical stories by filmmaker, playwright and author Marcel Pagnol (Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring), My Father's Glory is the heartwarming story of a loving family and a happy childhood. Directed by Robert Yves and narrated by Marcel as an adult, the film takes place at a time when life was simple and the possibilities endless. It is the story of 11-year old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) who spends his summer vacation with his family in the south of France and comes away with a deeper understanding of nature and a stronger bond with Joseph (Phillippe Caubere), his intelligent and funny schoolteacher father. Set around the turn-of-the-century, the film has an impeccable sense of time and place and you are guaranteed to fall in love with the humming cicadas, the fig and olive trees, and the rocky crags of Provence.Vacationing with the family are the pompous but kindly Uncle Jules (Didier Pain), a strong Catholic and his wife Aunt Rose (Therese Liotard). Marcel's father is Protestant but anti-religious so Marcel's lovely mother, Augustine (Nathalie Roussel) must walk a tightrope to ensure that dinner conversations stay away from religion. Marcel's relationship with his father is warm and loving but takes on an added dimension when he sees his father shoot down two rare partridges during a hunting trip and show them off to the village. Personally, I wish he had found a different way to glorify his father than to take pleasure in the shooting down of these lovely birds, but this was a long time ago. Marcel soon develops a friendship with Lili des Bellons (Joris Molinas), a local boy of his own age who comes to his rescue when he is lost in the woods trying to keep up with the hunters. Lili and Marcel become fast friends, both educating the other about things unfamiliar to them. Lili teaches Marcel about the hills and woods of the French countryside and Marcel tells Lili about department stores and other strange goings-on in the big city. Their relationship is so real that when they part company at the end of summer, there is an atmosphere of abiding sadness. My Father's Glory unfolds episodically and not much happens but it never seems disjointed or lacking in unity. If you are looking for an escape from our artificial civilization and its so-called pleasures, you will find a perfect release in watching this loving memoir of an idyllic time. Beautifully acted, superbly photographed, and enhanced with an evocative score by Vladimir Cosma, My Father's Glory is... well…glorious. After seeing this film, you might very well decide (like Marcel) to become a hermit and live among the owls.