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My Mother's Castle (Widescreen)

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
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The second part of Yves Robert's filming of Marcel Pagnol's childhood memoirs completes the narrative so casually begun in My Father's Glory--and fulfills a radiant journey we hadn't even realized we'd embarked on. Marcel is approaching his teens and acquiring a more coherent sense of the world. Accordingly, My Mother's Castle boasts a more concentrated style and unspools its story over (mostly) the space of one year, as opposed to a dozen. Whereas in the first film Robert had worked entirely with little-known players who simply became Marcel's family, here he calls upon screen veterans Jean Rochefort, Jean Carmet, and Georges Wilson to flesh out sharply ironical figures who loom challengingly on the young man's horizon. Consistent with Pagnol's emphasis on Provençal locations, the focal event of the film becomes the weekly walk the Marseilles-based family makes from the trolley station to their remote country cottage--a quintessentially mundane ritual that comes to be fraught with wonder, delight, and terror. It all leads to a payoff that opens the meaning of the title only as the film is reaching its transcendent conclusion. --Richard T. Jameson

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Follow Up to My Father's Glory, July 6 2003
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Timothy Kearney (Haverhill, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Mother's Castle (Widescreen) (DVD)
My Mother Castle picks up where My Father's Glory Ends. Like its predecessor, it is a movie that really does not have a plot, but it has well developed characters, a beautiful setting, and wonderful music. In this film, the family visits a beloved vacation home in the South of France as often as possible. The mother Augustine is more the focus of this film, but Marcel's father also plays a significant role. We get a sense of how powerful his father's teaching impacted students when we meet one of his former students who is now an adult. In this film we see Marcel grow up a bit more. He still has a great friend in the country boy Lilli, a friendship which began in the first film. He also has his first crush on a rather eccentric girl. Perhaps the greatest moment in the film is when the family learns that Marcel will be able to attend a prestigious exam school. Marcel realizes that this will give him greater educational opportunities than his father ever had, but he also realizes that he may never be the wonderful person that his father happened to be.

I viewed this film prior to viewing My Father's Glory. This is not to say that My Mother's Castle is not a good enough film to stand on its own. The two films are nearly equal in all aspects. The high standards of the first film were applied to the second film, but since this film takes place after My Father's Glory, it will be less confusing to viewers if they have already met the characters in the first film.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful! (This is the French version also), April 24 2010
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Johnny Darkness "Johnny Darkness" (West Kelowna, BC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Mother's Castle (Widescreen) (DVD)
My Mother's Castle (Widescreen Dubbed) (This DVD gives you the choice to view the original French with or without subtitles, or to watch the film dubbed.) In France they say: We have two great Marcels: Proust, whom we greatly admire and respect, and Pagnol, whom we love. (I love them both.) If you have read Pagnol's childhood remembrances, you will know how beautiful and sad and joyous this part of his childhood was: the close family, (a charming, bright, and amusing father; a beautiful, witty and adventurous mother; and the two 'typical' kids destined to forge such diverse paths in life) the trips to Provence, the securng of a house, the adventures, the friendship, and the beauty of the landscape.... but the tragedies of life arise too. This movie, preceded by "My Father's Glory", is a perfect recreation, and will proffer a full gamut of emotions. Fit for, and deserving of, audiences of all ages. If you haven't already, also buy the books, too!My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful film with a touching final scene, Aug 15 2001
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"dwhite151" (Del Valle, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Mothers Castle (VHS Tape)
A wonderful lyrical film of childhood and memory. The final scene is a touching finale to Pagnol's paen to his young mother. See both films in sequence if possible, but "My Mother's Castle" is capable of standing alone.
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