The Baker's Wife
(La Femme du Boulanger)
R is for Raimu
Screening on Film
Screening on Film
Directed by Marcel Pagnol.
With Ginette Leclerc, Charles Moulin.
France, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
With Ginette Leclerc, Charles Moulin.
France, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
The infidelity of the baker's wife, who leaves her husband for a handsome young shepherd, is forgivable to the members of a French village in Provence. But when the baker becomes too despondent to provide them with bread, the town loses its tolerance and bands together to bring the errant wife home. Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of Jean Giono's novel is a witty, sensuous portrait of Provençal life. Raimu's performance as the despairing cuckold made him famous.
