The second installment in Claude Berri’s sprawling rural tragedy follows a beautiful but shy shepherdess as she plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father’s land caused his death. Taken together, these masterful adaptations of the novel by Marcel Pagnol stand as high-water marks of the French cinema, recapturing the rich humanist tradition of its classical era.
The second installment in Claude Berri’s sprawling rural tragedy follows a beautiful but shy shepherdess as she plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father’s land caused his death. Taken together, these masterful adaptations of the novel by Marcel Pagnol stand as high-water marks of the French cinema, recapturing the rich humanist tradition of its classical era.
