The Marcel Pagnol novel that inspired Claude Berri's 1986 twin features, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, was itself a literary reworking of Pagnol's penultimate theatrical feature in 1953.

This is the second part of the Pagnol story that began with Jean de Florette. Emmanuelle Béart, as Gerard Depardieu's daughter, now takes command of the story ...

Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources ...

Inspired by Pagnol's own 1952 feature, Manon Des Sources, the story chronicled the destruction of an educated outsider by avaricious provincials, who meet their match in his free-spirited daughter.

Berri's best-known films, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (both 1986), were shot in Provence on what was then the huge budget of $17m, and were a sensation both in France – where they out ...

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Béart, who won a coveted César film award for 1986's Manon des Sources, does not name her alleged abuser in the documentary, titled Such a Resounding Silence, which she also co-directed.

Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources (1986). She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress. Emmanuelle ...

If the nostalgic melodrama of Jean de Florette and its sequel, Manon des Sources (as directed by Claude Berri) brings back fond memories, this bucolic reverie from another of Marcel Pagnol's ...