The Marcel Pagnol novel that inspired Claude Berri's 1986 twin features, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, was itself a literary reworking of Pagnol's penultimate theatrical feature in 1953.

Berri's best-known films, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (both 1986), were shot in Provence on what was then the huge budget of $17m, and were a sensation both in France – where they out ...

Béart, who won a coveted César film award for 1986's Manon des Sources, does not name her alleged abuser in the documentary, titled Such a Resounding Silence, which she also co-directed.

French actress Emmanuelle Béart was a victim of incest as a child, she has revealed in a new documentary. Béart, who won a coveted César film award for 1986's Manon des Sources, does not name ...