Sunday 29 March 2026 10:00
languages : sans paroles locations : Théâtre des Capucins
synopsis
Marseille, the Bar de la Marine. Marius is a young man exhilarated by the sea. He loves his father César, gruff but good-natured, and he also loves little Fanny, who sells seashells in front of his father’s bar. Since childhood, he has been burned by a desire to travel the world. He struggles against his restlessness. He does not want to abandon old César, who might die of grief, nor Fanny, who loves him desperately. And yet, the sea calls to him.
Il s’agit d’un ‘drame gai’. Le fond de l’histoire est mélodramatique mais les personnages sont si truculents, les comparses si pittoresques, les reparties si drôles, l’interprétation si brillante que l’on oublie l’anecdote au profit du détail. Le film n’a pas vieilli et a fait les délices de toutes les générations qui se sont succédé depuis 1931.
Dictionnaire des films. Éd. Larousse
One of the first great French talkies.
The Retro Set
Demazis, who had been working with Pagnol in the theater since 1927 (and would give birth to his child in 1933), is extraordinary in all three movies, playing the central female character in a story governed by the desires of men.
Chicago Reader
