La gloire de mon père

Provence, which was the inspiration for Pagnol's work, in a movie about childhood based on the first part of Pagnol's famous memoirs. The basics of his work are clearly recognizable here, and moreover, the whole thing unfolds with the appealing spirit of an innocent carefree child's view of the world, which reminds us more than once of “Le Petit Nicholas" (even in specific details); so much so that I wondered if Goscinny had in fact been inspired by Pagnol. (27.05.2012)

This wonderful trip back to the times at the turn of the 19th and 20th century in the French countryside, seen through the carefree lens of a child and served up with the right amount of humor by the wry voice of Viktor Preiss, is bound to enchant any receptive soul. The beautiful hilly landscape of Provence enhances the poetry of the whole narrative in a way that makes you want to scream: "God, how beautiful the world is!" (85%) (21.01.2021)

This is an extremely pleasant French, essentially family film about the book author's childhood in the French countryside. It's extremely calm, it's not unnecessarily exacerbated, and it shows both the purity of a child's soul and the beautiful landscape of the French countryside. I'd take that kind of childhood too, not that mine was bad. (16.03.2018)