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The Well Digger's Daughter
Directed by
Daniel Auteuil
Not Rated
2011
1h 47m
Romance
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Drama
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7.0
88%
75%
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In 1930s southern France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.
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Cast of The Well Digger's Daughter
Daniel Auteuil
Pascal Amoretti / Director / Writer
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Patricia Amoretti
Kad Merad
Félipe Rambert
Sabine Azéma
Marie Mazel
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
André Mazel
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Jacques Mazel
Émilie Cazenave
Amanda Amoretti
Marie-Anne Chazel
Nathalie
Jean-Louis Barcelona
Clerk
Coline Bosso
Isabelle Amoretti, daughter of Pascal
Chloé Malarde
Marie Amoretti, daughter of Pascal
Brune Coustellier
Leonore Amoretti, daughter of Pascal
Ilona Porte
Roberte Amoretti, daughter of Pascal
Patrick Bosso
waiter at cafe
François-Eric Gendron
Flight captain
Michèle Granier
Mélanie, Mazel maid
Salvatore Caltabiano
Double of well digger
Gérard Montel
L'homme terrasse
Zachary Auteuil
Amoretti
Jérôme Seydoux
Producer
Alain Sarde
Producer
The Well Digger's Daughter Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
"The Well-Digger's Daughter" isn't a mind-blower; it's not supposed to be. It's a light lunch with an old friend whom it's good to see again.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
Auteuil's direction is a lot like his acting -- well-mannered and likable, yet staid and ultimately inconsequential.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
To call "The Well Digger's Daughter" an old-fashioned film is to pay it a compliment. Here is a love story embedded in traditional values.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
"The Well-Digger's Daughter" is perhaps a bit too sentimental. But the performances are so heartfelt that its occasional excesses are easily forgiven.
Newsday
John Anderson
What resonates is a sense of humanity that sometimes gets lost in films with less regard for traditional storytelling, or respect for simple emotion.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Astrid Bergs-Frisbey as Patricia and Jean-Pierre Darroussin are almost enchanting, but it is Auteuil, entering a new career as mature actor-director, whom we want to cheer.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"The Well-Digger's Daughter" feels decidedly, almost defiantly, old-fashioned, but not necessarily in a bad way.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's the first film directed by the actor Daniel Auteuil, as part of a four-film project to remake films by the writer-director Marcel Pagnol, and if the others are this good, this is a project to look forward to.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Let "The Well-Digger's Daughter" take you back in time, not once but several times over.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Auteuil the director knows not to get in the way of Pagnol's plot machinery. Auteuil the actor is another story.
About.com
Jordan Hoffman
I mean, if egocentric, short-sighted, emotionally crippling fathers aren't going to fight for their daughters' hymens WHO WILL!?
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a movie that could easily have been made 50 years ago, and I don't mean that as a knock. There is much to be said for a film that values unflashy craft and simple, unhurried storytelling.
The Atlantic
Jon Frosch
Even as you wish the material had been reshaped into something riskier, you may find yourself appreciating the sincerity and unshowy workmanship that went into the movie.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
[It's] enjoyable enough as it plods along, and the final act wraps things up on a fulfilling note.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A pastoral wrapped in gauze, sunlight and sentimentality.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
An unchallenging but utterly palatable movie to take your subtitle-reading grandma to see on a Sunday afternoon.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
You feel yourself slowing down and relaxing as you watch; there's nothing rushed or crowded about this film, just a quiet story carefully told.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Auteuil is hardly the first to sing the praises of Provence, but he sings with a passion eloquent enough to give nostalgia a good name.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The Well-Digger's Daughter pushes a number of nostalgia buttons at once, most of them pleasing.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
Doesn't give us reason to assume that what we don't see is much more scandalous than what we do.
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