The Well Digger’s Daughter (CLUB)

Mon 26 - 28 Mar

Film

Club Film:
As this film has not been certified by the Irish Film Certification Office you will need to pay an evening membership fee of €1.50 on collection of your tickets if you are not already a film club member. This nightly membership covers you and three guests on club nights.

Daniel Auteuil returns to the world of simple country life in Provence (and the place of his own childhood) for his first feature as a director. La fille du puisatier deals with an unmarried girl, Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), the daughter of the well-digger Pascal Amoretti (Auteuil), who gets herself pregnant just after turning 18. The father-to-be, Jacques (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is not around, having been called up as a fighter pilot in the war and he has gone missing, presumed dead. This is beautifully shot in perpetual sunshine and superbly scored by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech),who makes fine use of early 1940s period songs to heighten the atmosphere. The simplicity of Auteuil’s direction gives the film its truly authentic charm.

Director: Daniel Auteuil, 2011