MOVIE · 1986

Manon of the Spring

Drama120 min

Years after her father’s land was stolen, Manon has grown into a solitary shepherdess in the hills of Provence, living apart from the neighbors who ruined her family. Emmanuelle Béart is Manon, now old enough to act on the anger she’s carried since Jean de Florette, while Daniel Auteuil’s Ugolin and his grandfather César (Yves Montand) stand at the center of her revenge. Claude Berri’s sequel returns to the same rural world of wells, farms, and village gossip, where old betrayals still shape daily life and Manon’s reappearance unsettles everyone around her.