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My Mother's Castle (1991)

Philippe Caubère , Nathalie Roussel  |  PG |  DVD
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Julien Ciamaca
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006I04K
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,683 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "My Mother's Castle" on IMDb

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The second part of Yves Robert's filming of Marcel Pagnol's childhood memoirs completes the narrative so casually begun in My Father's Glory--and fulfills a radiant journey we hadn't even realized we'd embarked on. Marcel is approaching his teens and acquiring a more coherent sense of the world. Accordingly, My Mother's Castle boasts a more concentrated style and unspools its story over (mostly) the space of one year, as opposed to a dozen. Whereas in the first film Robert had worked entirely with little-known players who simply became Marcel's family, here he calls upon screen veterans Jean Rochefort, Jean Carmet, and Georges Wilson to flesh out sharply ironical figures who loom challengingly on the young man's horizon. Consistent with Pagnol's emphasis on Provençal locations, the focal event of the film becomes the weekly walk the Marseilles-based family makes from the trolley station to their remote country cottage--a quintessentially mundane ritual that comes to be fraught with wonder, delight, and terror. It all leads to a payoff that opens the meaning of the title only as the film is reaching its transcendent conclusion. --Richard T. Jameson

Product Description

After a special summer in the country, a family returns for Christmas. Here, the young son learns to appreciate his mother.
Genre: Foreign Film - French
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD

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I saw the movies before reading the books, and the films are very true to the books. S. J. P. Sturm  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
A beautiful protrayal of youth, friendship, love and of course Provence. Claudie Wilkinson  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
Superb acting, superb scenery. Amateur curmudgeon  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Love, family, teachers and students May 14, 2003
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This is a film with no action, no violence, no sex, no nudity.
I have seen it 6 or 7 times by the last count.
Superb acting, superb scenery.
The story closely follows Marcel Pagnol's book, and that, by itself makes it worth watching in French. The mastery of the language that Pagnol exhibits, in combination with the sedulously researched historical perspective create a masterpiece.
Other reviewers already have told the story, I am not going to repeat their comments.
If you have children, watch this movie with them. The scene when the schoolteacher father is taking his children along for a stroll, and all the while teaching them is worth millions.
This is not only a coming of age movie, but also a historical snapshot on France at the turn of the century, when science and technology promised a world where everything would be possible.
Of course you should see "My father's glory" first to savor the complete richness and texture of this movie, but it only loses a little if you watch it separately.
Just get both, and be done with it. This is a movie you will watch several times anyway.
A little tragic at the end (this is a French film after all)but no more than the tragedy that was about to unfold in France twice in the next 30 years.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Follow Up to My Father's Glory July 6, 2003
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My Mother Castle picks up where My Father's Glory Ends. Like its predecessor, it is a movie that really does not have a plot, but it has well developed characters, a beautiful setting, and wonderful music. In this film, the family visits a beloved vacation home in the South of France as often as possible. The mother Augustine is more the focus of this film, but Marcel's father also plays a significant role. We get a sense of how powerful his father's teaching impacted students when we meet one of his former students who is now an adult. In this film we see Marcel grow up a bit more. He still has a great friend in the country boy Lilli, a friendship which began in the first film. He also has his first crush on a rather eccentric girl. Perhaps the greatest moment in the film is when the family learns that Marcel will be able to attend a prestigious exam school. Marcel realizes that this will give him greater educational opportunities than his father ever had, but he also realizes that he may never be the wonderful person that his father happened to be.

I viewed this film prior to viewing My Father's Glory. This is not to say that My Mother's Castle is not a good enough film to stand on its own. The two films are nearly equal in all aspects. The high standards of the first film were applied to the second film, but since this film takes place after My Father's Glory, it will be less confusing to viewers if they have already met the characters in the first film.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A MOVING EXPERIENCE January 26, 2000
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"My Mother's Castle" is a follow-up of the equally brilliant film "My Father's Glory" taken from the books of Marcel Pagnol. This film is like a beautiful painting, true to life and brilliantly acted. It is a film that will leave you in a nostalgic and dreamy mood. It will move you, make you cry both with sadness and joy. A beautiful protrayal of youth, friendship, love and of course Provence. You will all want to go to France on holiday after seeing this film. A MUST see film. Enjoy it everyone!
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5.0 out of 5 stars review
I love this movie as it is the sequel to an equally engaging film. Again, the scenery and childlike wonder of the storyteller are splendid.
Published 2 months ago by jean patterson
5.0 out of 5 stars Classique !
If you love France and Provence you have to see this classic ! You can't call yourself a Francophile until you've seen this !
Published 4 months ago by Cynthia White
5.0 out of 5 stars my mother's castle
This sequel to My Father's Glory is delightful as are all of Marcel Pagnol's autobiographical works. Read more
Published 8 months ago by D. C. Schwekendiek
5.0 out of 5 stars True Glory
As another reviewer has noted, this film has no sex or nudity. Yet despite that, it is still a movie to savour and worth repeated viewings. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Anthony Clarke
5.0 out of 5 stars Part two of Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories brought to film by...
"Le Chateau de ma Mere" (My Mother's Castle) continues the autobiographical story of Marcel Pagnol's near-idyllic childhood in Provence in the optimistic years immediately before... Read more
Published on November 5, 2010 by The Guardian
4.0 out of 5 stars A Simple, Engaging tale from France 100 years ago
A light-hearted story of a French family -- school-teacher father, resolute mother and several young kids -- and their annual trek across the country-side of southern France to... Read more
Published on September 20, 2010 by Gardner S. Thoenen
5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet memories of a childhood
"My Mother's Castle" is based on the second part the 1957 autobiographical novels by Marcel Pagnol and is the sequel to "My Fathers' Glory". Read more
Published on April 15, 2010 by Heli Fink
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Sequel to My Father's Glory
A fine sequel to My Father's Glory. Again it is not an action film and the pace is slow. The saga of a boy's coming of age in provencial France continues including his first... Read more
Published on October 12, 2009 by K. Wayne Heil
5.0 out of 5 stars Classroom Use
I bought this DVD because it's one of the only ones I've found with both English and French audio and subtitles. Great DVD! Classique!
Published on February 14, 2009 by Loretta Groulx
5.0 out of 5 stars and the greatest of these is Love.
Amongst all the "bleak"," hard-hitting", "unflinchingly honest" "unrelenting realism" with which we are confronted in the name of so much art-house cinema, this film (together... Read more
Published on July 28, 2008 by Mnr L. P. Muller
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