• The middle film in The Marseille trilogy from Marcel Pagnol. The story picks up right where the first film (Marius – 1931) left off with Fanny fainting as Marius leaves for a long trip as a sailor to Australia
  • Set in the Bar de la Marine — Raimu plays César—and he is a very good actor (apparently Welles called him “the greatest actor who ever lived”)—when he and the Fanny character embrace you can feel his pain the anger simultaneously
  • The dialogue is always sublime—“the boy couldn’t measure a drink (he was a bartender) and now he’s measuring the ocean!”—“promise me you won’t kill her if she cheats on you”—he says “no, that’s a husband’s right” and she calls him a murderer- haha
  • Long tracking shot down the street as Fanny goes to confess and pray—but this is a film and trilogy about the writing and performances
  • All four central characters are just people you want to spend time with- Raimu’s César perhaps most of all– Panisse is a good man
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1932