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This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While attending school in Marseilles, Marcel Julien Ciamaca daydreams about the nearby hills where he and his family spend vacations at a cottage. It is not enough to sojourn there over Christmas, Easter, and summer holidays; Marcel wants to be there all the time, to roam the fields, climb the rock faces, and enjoy other simple pleasures with his mother, father, and siblings.
Oct 26, 1990 Wide
Sep 2, 2003
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Show how the embrace of place enables us to nourish our inner identity and to stretch our consciousness
From the way the critics talk, you'd think this was some light-weight piece of fluff. It's not. Far from it. I think some critics may be deceived because this seems so much a children's story, but just because the story appears to be told from a child's perspective, does not make it a piece of juvenalia. The
August 24, 2009Super Reviewer
A very powerful story, and a very gripping character. I loved how the story progressed and the people they met while sneaking through the back gates of all of those big houses. The only thing I didn't like was the ending, and how it all turned out for the entire family, just seemed a little too dry for my taste, but
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