I just watched La femme du boulanger (Marcel Pagnol, 1938) and rated it 4/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baker%27s_Wife_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #LaFemmeDuBoulanger #MarcelPagnol #TheBakersWife

Literarischer #18April

„Am schwierigsten ist es, die Meinung geheim zu halten, die man von sich selbst hat.“

#MarcelPagnol Tod 1974

85 years ago:
Heartbeat (FR)
Original title: Le Schpountz
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
1938-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/67753
#Heartbeat #MarcelPagnol #Fernandel #FernandCharpin #SuzannedeTroeye #WomenInFilm #ClassicFilm

Ceux qui ont inventé la charité, ils ont eu tort, parce que la charité, c'est le contraire de la justice.
[#MarcelPagnol]

Le mâle repoussé traite généralement de «salope» la femme qui, précisément, refuse de l'être.
[#MarcelPagnol]

Blaise: Vous êtes pauvre.

Cécile: L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur.

Blaise, sarcastique: Oui, et le travail, c'est la liberté… Ne croyez pas ces mensonges. Ce sont les riches qui les ont fabriqués pour les pauvres.

[#MarcelPagnol / Jazz]

72 years ago:
Topaze (FR)
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fai...
1951-01-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/67756
#Topaze #MarcelPagnol #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

72 years ago:
Topaze (FR)
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fai...
1951-01-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/67756
#Topaze #MarcelPagnol #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

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Manon des sources (1986) bande annonce
#MarcelPagnol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQwM4zEb-U