Manon of the Spring Film Screening

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Date/Time
Apr 13, 2016
2:00 pm

Location
Peace Dale Library
1057 Kingstown Rd
Peace Dale, RI
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The Peace Dale Library's 2016 French Film Festival continues on Wednesday, April 13,
2 PM, with a showing of the 1986 film Manon of the Spring, directed by Claude Berri
and starring Yves Montand and Emanuelle Béart.


This film is the sequel to last month's movie, Jean de Florette, in which malicious
farmers block the only water source to an adjoining farm during a year of drought,
resulting in the death of their neighbor and their ultimate success in purchasing
the farm at a low price from his widow. Manon of the Spring focuses on Jean de
Florette's now-grown daughter Manon, who as a child witnessed the neighbors' gleeful
opening of the water source soon after her father's funeral, and how she exacts
revenge on those who conspired to make it happen.