The Well Digger's Daughter
The rural France in Daniel Auteuil’s The Well Digger’s Daughter looks and feels much older than the 1940 it projects. Auteuil plays a single father of six whose eldest—the titular daughter—could hold the key to better fortunes for the family. He would like to marry his daughter off to a financially stable, middle-aged co-worker, but Patricia (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) has fallen in love with a pilot who has been called into active duty … and left her behind with his unborn child. The look inside the cultural mores sets the boundaries, and Auteuil’s performance and script (based on a book and film by French icon Marcel Pagnol) are the touchstones for a story and movie that would be pretty disposable without them.
By Colin Boyd
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Credits
Director:
- Daniel Auteuil
Cast:
- Daniel Auteuil
- Kad Merad
- Sabine Azéma
- Jean-Pierre Darroussin
- Nicolas Duvauchelle
- Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
- Marie-Anne Chazel
- Emilie Cazenave
- Coline Bosso
- Chloé Malarde
- Brune Coustellier
- Ilona Porte
Producer:
- Alain Sarde
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