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Manon of the Spring

Original title: Manon des sources
  • 1986
  • PG
  • 1h 53m
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8.0/10
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Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, and Yves Montand in Manon of the Spring (1986)
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A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

  • Director
    • Claude Berri
  • Writers
    • Marcel Pagnol
    • Claude Berri
    • Gérard Brach
  • Stars
    • Yves Montand
    • Emmanuelle Béart
    • Daniel Auteuil
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    23K
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    • Director
      • Claude Berri
    • Writers
      • Marcel Pagnol
      • Claude Berri
      • Gérard Brach
    • Stars
      • Yves Montand
      • Emmanuelle Béart
      • Daniel Auteuil
    • 86User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, and Yves Montand in Manon of the Spring (1986)
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    Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, and Yves Montand in Manon of the Spring (1986)
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    Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, and Yves Montand in Jean de Florette (1986)
    Emmanuelle Béart in Manon of the Spring (1986)
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    Yves Montand
    Yves Montand
    • Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet'
    Emmanuelle Béart
    Emmanuelle Béart
    • Manon
    • (as Emmanuelle Beart)
    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    • Ugolin
    Hippolyte Girardot
    Hippolyte Girardot
    • Bernard Olivier
    Margarita Lozano
    Margarita Lozano
    • Baptistine
    Yvonne Gamy
    • Delphine
    Ticky Holgado
    Ticky Holgado
    • Le Spécialiste
    • (as Tiki Olgado)
    Jean Bouchaud
    • Le Curé
    Elisabeth Depardieu
    • Aimee Cadoret
    Gabriel Bacquier
    • Victor
    Armand Meffre
    • Philoxène
    André Dupon
    • Pamphile
    • (as Andre Dupon)
    Pierre Nougaro
    • Casimir
    Jean Maurel
    • Anglade
    Roger Souza
    • Ange
    Didier Pain
    • Eliacin
    Pierre-Jean Rippert
    • Cabridan
    Marc Betton
    • Martial
    • Director
      • Claude Berri
    • Writers
      • Marcel Pagnol
      • Claude Berri
      • Gérard Brach
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    • Trivia
      Yves Montand was raised in the area where the story takes place and had been a friend of Marcel Pagnol. Nevertheless he rejected the role when it was first offered. Montand was ultimately persuaded to take his role by wife Simone Signoret, who died during production.
    • Goofs
      When Manon visits her father's grave, a gravestone falls over on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      [dialog in French, lines from English subtitles]

      Cesar Soubeyran: [voiceover] Dear little Manon, the notary will tell you that I'm leaving you my whole estate. It may surprise you, but it's the truth. The lawyer will give you all the documents because your father was my son. He was the Soubeyran I'd hoped for all my life, whom I tormented to death because I didn't know who he was. If I had told him about the spring, he'd still be playing his harmonica, and you'd all be living in our family home. No one knows it, but I'm too ashamed to face anyone, even the trees. In the village, there's a person who knows. She will tell you everything. It's Delphine, the old blind woman. She'll explain that it's all because of Africa. I don't deserve to kiss you, and I never dared speak to you, but maybe now you can forgive me and even say a little prayer for poor Ugolin and me. I'm so pathetic, I even pity myself. Out of sheer spite, I never went near him. I never knew his voice or his face. I never saw his eyes, which might have been like his mother's. I only saw his hump and the pain I caused him. Now you understand why I want to die, because next to my torments, even hell would be a pleasure. Besides, I'll see him up there. I'm not afraid of him. Now he knows he's a Soubeyran. He's no longer a hunchback because of me. He knows it was all a foolish mistake. I'm sure that instead of blaming me, he'll defend me. Farewell, my darling girl. Your grandfather, César Soubeyran.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      Le Mariage de Manon
      Lyrics by David McNeil

      Performed by Gabriel Bacquier and Ève Brenner

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    One of the Very Best Films of the 1980s
    Manon of the Spring is the sequel to Jean de Florette, released the same year. By no means should Manon be rented without having first seen Jean. By no means, in either case, should one glance at the movie notes on the reverse side of the video box.

    Almost nothing can be said safely about Manon without giving away the overall plot or this or that twist or turn. Suffice to explain that Jean concerns an urbanite hunchback who relocates to the Provencal countryside with his wife and daughter, intent on raising rabbits. Manon picks up some years after the Jean conclusion, with the daughter having grown to young womanhood. (More prudish prospective viewers need to know that this will be explicitly evident.)

    This is superb movie-making. Other reviewers accurately call it a masterpiece. The story line dominates, not the acting. Even so, Yves Montand continues his excellent performance from Jean, and Daniel Auteuil as the unsightly nephew is more impressive after one sees him clean-cut and sophisticate in something like Un Coeur en Hiver (1992). Emmanuelle Beart and Hipployte Girardot say very little, yet it doesn't detract from their respective essential portrayals. Anyone who becomes a Beart fan is advised to rent Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995).

    The two movies, prequel and sequel, work as a team. By virtue of its powerful denouement, however, Manon of the Spring is the standout of the pair. For the same reason, in my opinion, it is one of the very best films of the 1980s.
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    • Sep 7, 2001

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 1987 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Switzerland
      • Italy
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Manons Rache
    • Filming locations
      • Mirabeau, Vaucluse, France(town centre and fountain)
    • Production companies
      • DD Productions
      • Films A2
      • RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,940,542
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,940,542
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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