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"Relentlessly funny” — The Oregonian
"A smash hit” — Backstage Magazine, N.Y.C.
JuM Oui • 2 é • January 1988
/987 brought a plethora of films that cross age, gender, and
class barriers. Two films with broader appeal than usual are
‘The Princess Bride’ ’ and ‘Manon of the Spring
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for example, shake her head “ no” when old
Baptistine asks her if she wants to rejoin her
mother. Fatally smitten Ugolin, who has taken
to following her from afar (or, camouflaged,
from anear), voices some details in the action
— he is trapping birds and putting them in her
little traps. She takes them to a neighboring
agerly awaited by all who saw Jean de
town to sell. Ugolin tends his flowers at night.
Florette,’ ’ part two of this two-part epic
He stalks, hunts and pines by day.
work, Manon of the Spring, maintains the same
This complete absence of prattling and petty
cinematic splendor, brilliant acting and ironic
talk, coupled with Manon’s bounding around
tragi-comic tone. A beautiful film on every
the hilly farm in all her sun-kissed splendor, add
level, Manon o f the Spring should stand as a
to her weight as a dramatic character. She is
incredibly beautiful, but only eighteen or so.
Yet she comes off as the closest thing to a true
earth goddess we have seen on Film for decades.
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Later, when Manon discovers the source for all
the water in the area and dams it up, we believe
benchmark to Filmmakers on how to translate
she has the strength of purpose to do it. We can
beautiful literary works into beautiful, literary
almost believe it is her divine right, and not just
Films.
from a squabble over land and her father’s un
Continuing in their roles as Cesar Soubeyran
timely death. There is also her ownership of the
and his simple, homely nephew, Ugolin, Yves
territory; we feel this for her by her cheerful
Montand and Daniel Auteuil are once again
tending of the goats as she wanders the place.
rural perfection. As the last of the Soubeyran
She can quote her late father about the Jurassic
line. Ugolin has only his gold to offer a woman
makeup of geological features to the new school
and it's not very important to him — it’s never
teacher, but she is so metaphorically bound up
shown on screen. He has followed his passion
in the earth that when he comes to talk to her
of raising carnations on the farm he and Cesar
later, he dusts off some leaves before he wakes
slowly and punishingly wrested from Manon’s
her up from her nap.
father. The ordeal resulted in Jean’s death and
Manon, who ends part one of the Film with a
orphaned Manon’s current situation. She is a
shriek, as a girl of ten or so who has just seen
shepherdess; she herds her goats among the hills
Cesar and Ugolin undam the spring, overhears
of what is now Ugolin’s farm. It’s in the terms
two hunters, one of whom details the Soubey-
of sale that she can live there, and though her
rans’ Fiendish plot, known to all the villagers, as
mother has resumed her career on the operatic
it turns out. Superstition kept him from telling
stage. Manon choses to remain with the old
the truth earlier. Ironically, it is superstition that
woman who lived in a little cabin on the farm
turns things around.
when her father still owned it.
Lo and behold! Manon is a mystery we have
Manon. still proud as she was in her girlhood,
been watching all along. We Find out why
hides from hunters, but occasionally they catch
Ugolin is so simple, and why the Soubeyrans
sight of her. and she has blossomed into a beau
are an endangered species. We Find out what
tiful young woman. The beautiful young
happened to Florette (hers was a sad story). We
woman. Scurrying up and down the hills with
Find out why Jean was a hunchback. And
her goats, napping in the noonday shade,
Africa, so delicately foreshadowed in Jean de
bathing in a spring, frolicing nude in the sun
Florette, plays no small part in the set-up of the
(maybe 30 seconds of Film) while playing her
epic tragedy.
father’s harmonica, have combined to make the
most of her heritage; she resembles the
Beautiful, tender, proud, intelligent acting,
legendary beauty, her grandmother, Florette.
the surpassingly beautiful Beart. and great
Manon has few lines in the Film. She sings, in
respect for an engrossing story make Manon of
quite an operatic fashion, to her goats, and she
the Spring one of the loveliest, most artistically
answers the occasional question, but she will.
satisfying Films in the history of the medium
Starring: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart,
Daniel Auteuil
Directed by: Claude Bern
From the novel “ Leau des Collines” (1936)
by Marcel Pagnol
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