Manon of the Spring | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | February 17, 2015
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Great character acting. The story gets a bit sluggish at points. Ups the stakes from its predecessor. Emmanuelle Bart is hypnotic.
| genre | Drama | foreign |
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| synopsis | In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her her father's land caused his death years earlier. |
| lead actors | Yves Montand | Emmanuelle Béart | Daniel Auteuil | Hippolyte Girardot | Margarita Lozano | Yvonne Gamy | Ticky Holgado | Elisabeth Depardieu |
| director | Claude Berri |