My Mother's Castle
by Yves Robert
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Actor: Didier Pain, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Philippe Caub?re, Th?r?se LiotardDirector: Yves Robert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: and the greatest of these is Love.
Summary: 5 Stars
Amongst all the "bleak"," hard-hitting", "unflinchingly honest" "unrelenting realism" with which we are confronted in the name of so much art-house cinema, this film (together with its predecessor My Father's Glory) offers something precious, something we lose in transit to adulthood. For in each one of us the secret garden, the summer holiday, the opening of presents, the kitchen of warm community longs to be found again. Its there, but we in jaded sophistication and disillusion have lost the key.
Having a key to a door along the canal which would afford their luggage-laden family an illicit short-cut en-route to their holiday house, and all the attendant moral dilemmas for a strict middle-class family is the ostensible subject-matter of the film. Not much, a trivial bourgeois episode, rendered for maximum sentimental effect says the cynic inside. Yes. Until your eyes involuntary begin to follow the limpid flow of water in the canal, until the landscape of Provence takes you in, and you find yourself a guest at their table in a lavender dusk. With the whole expanse of childhood waiting to be explored in the morning.
At the end of the film the cold, real world is acknowledged, but reluctantly, hurriedly like an unpleasant aftertaste. Time passes and death closes in on us all, encloses us from all. But in an act of defiance the adult Marcel literally breaks down the door central to the film, the source of anguish. Love, it is hinted, will prevail, and restore.
See this film to be made young again. Even if only as fleetingly as water flowing away.
Louis M
Summary of My Mother's Castle
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 Proven?al 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. JamesonArt House & International DVD Video
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