La femme du boulanger

1938 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 2773 2.8K

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Plot summary

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.

Director

Marcel Pagnol Photo
Marcel Pagnol

Top cast

Maximilienne Photo
Maximilienne as Melle Angèle
Édouard Delmont Photo
Édouard Delmont as Maillefer dit Patience
Jean Castan Photo
Jean Castan as Esprit, un berger
Marius Roux Photo
Marius Roux as Un messager
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1.07 GB
988*720
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 2
2.09 GB
1472*1072
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 13 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by s r 9 / 10

1001 movies to see before you die. Well

1001 movies to see before you die. Well written, acted and directed. Really some great satirical comedy and French village culture. Raimu was excellent and I laughed out loud a few times. Really some good characters and humor. It was on Internet Archive.
Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

Boring and stupid story

Boring and stupid story
Reviewed by William L 9 / 10

A uniquely subversive comedy of manners, The Baker's

A uniquely subversive comedy of manners, The Baker's Wife took a simple, explicitly stated comparison ("our daily bread" and actual bread) and employed it as means to lampoon morality and religion in equal measure. Villagers are motivated to assist their neighbor out of mutual self-interest rather than charity, to reestablish the supply of bread to their stomachs. The actual basis of the conflict - discord between the baker and his wife that eventually leads her to run off - is humorously never even considered until the final few minutes (the wife is near mute in the film; she is an object rather than a character), the practicalities of returning the relationship to its prior, flawed condition are the focus. The role of religious authority and virtue is an interesting one, as best told by a priest obsessed with convention and mannerisms rather than actual morality. Additionally, there is the pair of quarreling neighbors who argue over the shade cast by an elm tree, that toss barbs back and forth until tossed together by the baker's loss (and the loss of their bread), and end up finding a bawdy comraderie in drunkenness. The only problem for all this interesting thematic work on convention, authority, morality, and religion is that the film is too drawn-out for its content, a neverending deluge of dialogue told through long shots and extended scenes that never really completely justify their length, though any scene featuring a distraught Raimu is done particularly well. (4.5/5)
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