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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forces of war and class distinction drive wedges between lovers in “The Well-Digger’s Daughter,” set a century ago in the breathtaking country of southeastern France. An engaging Old World love story, ...

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 ...

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 Well-Digger's Daughter served to reunite star Raimu and writer/director Marcel Pagnol, who'd earlier scored an international hit with the "Marseilles trilogy" (Fanny, Marius, Cesar). The title ...

It’s evident from this affectionate, poised feature that Auteuil is at home in Pagnol’s world, which is – after all – his own as well. The native southerner slips his Provençal twang back on as Pascal ...