As an entertainment proposition, it’s hard to beat expert construction and unabashed sentiment. Marcel Pagnol, the French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker, had the combination down to a craft (if ...

“Everyone has his reasons,” said the great French filmmaker Jean Renoir. He meant that in a book, play or movie, all characters, no matter how dastardly their actions, should be guided by their own ...

Daniel Auteuil’s “The Well Digger’s Daughter,” an affectionate remake of the 1940 film by Marcel Pagnol, feels like a French variant on a Merchant-Ivory film. It’s the kind of movie almost nobody ...

Romance. Starring Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Nicolas Duvauchelle. Directed by Daniel Auteuil. (Not rated. 107 minutes.) "The Well Digger's Daughter," despite the title, does not take ...

Gorgeously photographed, sentimental and nostalgic, “The Well Digger’s Daughter” is new, but it could have been made any time in the past 50 years. French superstar Daniel Auteuil directed and stars ...

More stories by Nigel M. Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to French actor Daniel Auteil’s (“Cache”) directorial debut, “The Well-Digger’s Daughter.” The film, set to premiere at the Film Society ...

Let “The Well-Digger”s Daughter” take you back in time, not once but several times over. This traditional French film tells the story of a complicated romance between a rich man”s son and a poor man”s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not rated. 110 minutes. At area theaters. Let “The Well-Digger’s Daughter” take you back in time, not once but several times over. This traditional French ...

Let “The Well-Digger’s Daughter” take you back in time, not once but several times over. This traditional French film tells the story of a complicated romance between a rich man’s son and a poor man’s ...

The humanist spirit of Gallic novelist-director Marcel Pagnol is alive and well in the old-fashionedly sincere “The Well-Digger’s Daughter,” a competent remake of Pagnol’s eponymous 1940 melodrama ...

The sleepy French countryside stars alongside à strid Bergès-Frisbey in the plodding “The Well-Digger’s Daughter.” Lauren Greenfield (2) In his debut as a director, the accomplished French actor ...