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The Well Digger's Daughter
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- Starring: Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sabine Azéma
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- Director: Daniel Auteuil
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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88The Well Digger's Daughter is such a success that Auteuil has already been signed to direct three more Pagnol classics, and I eagerly want to see them.
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80The Well-Digger's Daughter offers a fervent poem to the region's abundant beauty.
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80Best of all "Daughter" marks a return to old-school French moviemaking, the kind of classically well-made endeavor that unrolls before us like a beloved tapestry. This is the kind of film they don't make anymore, only here it is.
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Jul 17, 201260Stirrings of dignified outrage via the eponymous well-digger eventually go a long way toward energizing the film, which improves markedly once it shifts its focus from the World War I–era milieu toward how quickly a naive young girl can turn into a fallen woman and the ways in which that fallout affects her father, her family, and apparently most importantly, her name.
