Marius

France

The first film in the Fanny trilogy by Marcel Pagnol. This may have been innovative at the time (1931) but seems hopelessly dated now.

All characters here were wildly overdone...waving their arms around, yelling in each others faces, carrying on like demented six year olds in a school play.

Too bad. The story evidenced the deep understanding Pagnol showed in his novels and plays. But cinema was too new - his attempt to bring his sensibility to the new medium was too broad, too exaggerated.Historical value only.

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