The first movie, "My Father's Glory," focuses on Marcel's relationship with his father, whom he practically worships. His family is loving and respectable - his father is a teacher, his mother a seamstress - and also a little eccentric, since the father has somehow become a cheerful atheist who loves to poke fun at his religious friends and relatives. Both parts of the story take place in the early years of this century, and depict Marcel's life as a young boy growing up in Marseille and the surrounding countryside.
They are based on Pagnol's memoirs and steeped in the atmosphere of a bygone time for which he and Mr. And now director Yves Robert has given us a pair of movies My Father's Glory" and "My Mother's Castle that can be seen separately, but are really two halves of a single narrative. Some filmmakers - especially French ones lately - unfold their stories in a more leisurely way, stretching a single plot over more than one movie.Claude Berri did this a few seasons ago with "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring," based on novels by Marcel Pagnol, a great French filmmaker of old. IT isn't carved in stone that a movie has to last about two hours and tell a complete story from beginning to end.
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