A Magnificent Life

The greatest storyteller of all time becomes the hero of his own story.

At the height of his fame, playwright, novelist, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol received a commission from the editor-in-chief of a major women’s magazine to write a literary serial, which allows him to recount his childhood, his Provence, his first loves... 

As he begins writing the first pages, the child he once was—little Marcel—suddenly appears to him. Thus, his memories resurface as the words flow: the arrival of talkies, the first major film studio, his attachment to actors, the experience of writing.

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