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Manon Des Sources
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Discover this Manon Des Sources Poster, a story by Marcel Pagnol that will transport you to a world of natural beauty and human drama.
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Description of this Manon des Sources Poster
Manon des Sources is a 1986 French-language period film. Directed by Claude Berri, it is the second of two films adapted from the two-volume 1966 novel by Marcel Pagnol, who wrote it based on his own film of the same title. This is the sequel to Jean de Florette.
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources appear in 60th place in the ranking of “100 best films of world cinema” established by Empire magazine in 2010.
After the events of Jean de Florette, Manon, Jean's daughter, lives in the Provençal countryside near Les Romarins, the farm that her father owned. She took up residence with a couple of old Piedmontese squatters who taught her how to live off the land, taking care of a herd of goats and hunting birds and rabbits. Ugolin Soubeyran, known as Galinette (only through his uncle César), successfully started growing carnations in Romarins with his uncle César Soubeyran, known as Papet, thanks to the water from the spring there.
After seeing her bathing naked in the mountains, Ugolin becomes interested in Manon. When he approaches her, she seems disgusted by his baseness and almost certainly by the memory of his involvement in her father's downfall. But Ugolin's interest in Manon becomes obsessive, to the point of sewing a ribbon of her hair onto his chest. At the same time, Manon is interested in Bernard, a handsome and cultured teacher who recently arrived in the village. As a child, Manon suffered the loss of her father, who died of a blow to the head while searching for a water source using explosives. César and Ugolin then bought the farm at a low price from his widow - Manon's mother - and unblocked the source. Manon witnessed it when she was a child. Both men directly benefited from his death.
When she hears two villagers talking about it, Manon understands that many people in the village knew about the crime but said nothing, because the Soubeyran family was important locally. While searching for a goat that fell into a crevasse above the village, Manon discovers the underground spring that supplies water to the farms and the village. To take revenge on the Soubeyrans and villagers, who knew but did nothing, she stops the flow of water using clay and rocks containing iron oxide found in the surrounding area.
Villagers quickly despair of finding water to feed their crops and run their businesses. They come to believe that the flow of water was stopped by a Providence to punish the injustice committed against John. Manon publicly accuses Caesar and Ugolin, and the villagers admit their own complicity in Jean's persecution. They never accepted him because he was foreign and physically deformed. Caesar attempts to evade the charges, but an eyewitness, a poacher who had broken into the vacant property at the time, comes forward to confirm the crime, shaming both Caesar and Ugolino. Ugolin desperately tries to ask for Manon's hand, but she rejects him. The Soubeyrans fled in disgrace. Rejected by Manon, Ugolin commits suicide by hanging himself from a tree, apparently ending the Soubeyran line.
The villagers ask Manon to participate in a religious procession to the village fountain because she is an orphan, hoping that recognition of the injustice will restore the flow of water to the village. With the help of Bernard, Manon unblocks the spring in advance and the water arrives in the village just as the procession reaches the fountain. Manon marries Bernard.
In the meantime, Caesar was broken by the suicide of his nephew. Delphine, one of his old acquaintances, returns to the village and tells him that Florette, his love at the time, wrote to him to tell him that she was carrying their child. With no response from him, she attempted to abort. Florette left the village, married a blacksmith from Créspin and the child was born alive but with a hunchback.
Caesar, who left to do his military service in Africa, never received her letter and did not know that she had given birth to his child. By a cruel twist of fate, Jean, the man he led to despair and death without having met him, is the son he always wanted. Now realizing that she is his family, César watches sadly as the pregnant Manon rushes home in the evening, wishing to reconcile with her only grandson, but knowing that will never happen.
Devastated and no longer having the will to live, Caesar died quietly in his sleep. In a letter, he leaves his property to Manon, whom he recognizes as his natural granddaughter and the last of the Soubeyrans.
