A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
- Manon
- (as Emmanuelle Beart)
- Le Spécialiste
- (as Tiki Olgado)
- Pamphile
- (as Andre Dupon)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaYves Montand was raised in the area where the story takes place and had been a friend of Marcel Pagnol. Nevertheless he rejected the role when it was first offered. Montand was ultimately persuaded to take his role by wife Simone Signoret, who died during production.
- GoofsWhen three goats are climbing on the rocks, you can clearly see someone waving a pine branch behind them, probably to force them to move.
- Quotes
Ugolin: [to Manon] Manon, don't run away! It's not to give you work. I was lying to you! It's because I love you, Manon. I love you with all my heart! Manon! I want to marry you! I'm all alone! I've got no-one! My grandparents are dead. My father hanged himself when I was little. My mother died of the flu. There's only Uncle Papet! He's rich, he's old. He's going to die. He's going to leave me all his money. It'll be yours, because I love you. I love you! I am sick for the love of you. It's suffocating me! I saw you bathing in the rainwater. I watched for hours. You were so lovely. I was tempted to commit a crime.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)
Almost nothing can be said safely about Manon without giving away the overall plot or this or that twist or turn. Suffice to explain that Jean concerns an urbanite hunchback who relocates to the Provencal countryside with his wife and daughter, intent on raising rabbits. Manon picks up some years after the Jean conclusion, with the daughter having grown to young womanhood. (More prudish prospective viewers need to know that this will be explicitly evident.)
This is superb movie-making. Other reviewers accurately call it a masterpiece. The story line dominates, not the acting. Even so, Yves Montand continues his excellent performance from Jean, and Daniel Auteuil as the unsightly nephew is more impressive after one sees him clean-cut and sophisticate in something like Un Coeur en Hiver (1992). Emmanuelle Beart and Hipployte Girardot say very little, yet it doesn't detract from their respective essential portrayals. Anyone who becomes a Beart fan is advised to rent Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995).
The two movies, prequel and sequel, work as a team. By virtue of its powerful denouement, however, Manon of the Spring is the standout of the pair. For the same reason, in my opinion, it is one of the very best films of the 1980s.
- Chris_Middlebrow
- Sep 6, 2001
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Manons Rache
- Filming locations
- Mirabeau, Vaucluse, France(town centre and fountain)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,940,542
- Gross worldwide
- $3,940,542
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1