Manon of the Spring

Name: Manon of the Spring
Genre: Drama
Released: December 4, 1987
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 70

1987

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Orion Classics | Release Date: December 4, 1987 | PG

Summary: A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 113 min

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Roger Ebert

It moves with a majestic pacing over the affairs of four generations, demonstrating that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. Read full review

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Tasha Robinson

The pacing is expansive rather than draggy; Berri is in no rush to tear through his story, but the dialogue is generally meaningful and story-critical, and very little goes on that isn't directly relevant to the story's ultimate ends. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Manon of the Spring reminds us how gratifying good old-fashioned revenge can be. Yet the film makers also remind us that carrying vengeance too far is ultimately futile and self-destructive. [24 Dec 1987]

Jake Cole

This tonal shift transforms Manon of the Spring from a caustic morality play into something more reflective, an elegy to a way of life whose residents did not fully appreciate until they themselves had helped to end it. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Manon des Sources is the poignant, but more dramatically wobbly, followup to Jean de Florette, producer-director Claude Berri's risky two-film adaptation of a novel by Marcel Pagnol, who, unsatisfied with his own next-to-last feature in 1952, expanded it as a two-part novel. Read full review

Desson Thomson

To completely sabotage the work, there is an insipid affair between Manon and a young teacher, Bernard (Hippolyte Girardot). Their juvenile romance blunts the epic effect that Berri obviously is trying to create. Read full review

Vincent Canby

The events in ''Manon of the Spring'' are no more wildly melodramatic than those in ''Jean de Florette'' but, without the indoctrination provided by ''Jean,'' the second film functions as a mean-spirited review of the first. Read full review

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