My Father's Glory
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Movie Reviews of My Father's Glory
Movie Review: Lavish, Beautiful, and Sentimental
Summary: 5 Stars
My Father's Glory is the first of two films dealing with the novelist/filmmaker Marcel Pagnol's childhood. The film really does not have a plot. Marcel's parents Joseph, a beloved school teacher, and his mother Augustine, a dressmaker meet, fall in love, and get married. Soon afterward Marcel is born, as is his brother and sister. Marcel's family, along with his Uncle Jules and Aunt Rose, vacation in the South of France, and his father wins a hunting contest. On the surface there is not much to hold the film together. Yet the plot of the film is not what makes it so worthwhile. The film's chief strength is the way that each character is developed. We can see that Joseph is a good and descent man, a masterful teacher, and most especially a devoted father and husband. Young Marcel idolizes his father, and wants all others to realize the father's great qualities. The father is not perfect, and Marcel has questions about his doubt of all things religious. Marcel admires his mother as well, who is a nurturing and caring soul. The other major characters are both richly developed and varied.The setting of the film is sumptuous. The small French town where Marcel and his family hail from seems realistic and the viewer can feel as if he/she has stepped back in time. The music adds to the film and perfectly blends with the scenes and characters.
Some may feel that the film is too saccharinely sweet. This can be an easy dismissal of a film that is unashamedly lavish, nostalgic, and sentimental. Such critics are wrong, however. The film shows Pagnol's appreciation for his parents, and how their good qualities played such a significant role in the man he would later be.
Movie Review: beautiful film about childhood memories.......
Summary: 5 Stars
My Father's Glory is, quite simply, a marvelous story about the simple (and profound) memories of childhood. This film is an adaptation of the memoirs of great, Provence-based writer Marcel Pagnol. Marcel (Julien Ciamaca)has two wonderful and loving parents, school teacher Joseph (Philippe Caubere) and seamstress Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). Marcel's early recollections of childhood are, both, heartwarming and tender. He remembers taking many walks with his Tante (Aunt) Rose (Therese Liotard) in the park, where Rose has a chance encounter with her future husband, Marcel's Uncle Jules (Didier Pan). He also remembers the arrival of his younger brother, Paul (Victorien Delamare), his companion and friend in many of life's adventures. This story also recounts the family's summer trip to the country (this ties into the significance of the title, but I won't ruin it for you).
At this day and age, where filmmaking runs rampant with cynicism and darkness, My Father's Glory is a refreshing alternative. This is a joy to watch.....it makes you feel happy to be alive.
Movie Review: Idyll of Boyhood
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is one of the most honest and beautiful accounts of family life and boyhood in the Auvergne and in Marseilles. The warmth of the Langudoc shimmers through the colours of the film as also through the lives of this happy family drenched in the browning sunlight in the last few years of the nineteenth and the first few of the twentieth century. This warmth is reflected also in the son Marcel's friendship with the young peasant boy, Lili, who modestly asks if he may keep the sailor suit which fits him. In a sense, this is a 'lower professional' childhood rather than the aristocratic one of the Tadzio in 'Death in Venice'. It is completed by a continuation film, equally wonderful, called 'Le Chateau de ma Mere' - and this, too is a must. The two together make for a wonderful winter evening and make you realise just what dross we are generally offered on the television.Movie Review: One of the best childhood films ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, quite simply, one of the best films about childhood ever made. But then again, to write this film off as a film about childhood is too easy. This is a gorgeously filmed adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of growing up and vacationing in Provence with his family. The cinematography is beautiful, and the cast is uniformly excellent. And as a real treat to film viewers, there are no sentimental or treacly moments that can often bog a film down. A friend noted that while I watched this film, I had a smile on my face the entire time. That's the best kind of film. This is followed by the equally stellar but more somber "My Mother's Castle."Movie Review: One of the most beautiful films ever crafted.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my most favorite film in the whole world. Absolutely beautiful and real. I have all of Marcel Pagnol's books and had to have his films. What a wonderful, though short lived time in history this was.
Life changing and a film much needed in todays world of misrey and sadness. If you need to bottle happiness up for latter when you need it, then watch this film and you will have a wonderful memory and walk away content knowing that this film's story really happened and was about real people who lived just a time or so ago.