Screening

About La femme du boulanger (The Baker’s Wife)

Year Released:

1938

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Metadata:

Directed by Marcel Pagnol

All tickets have been distributed for this screening. IU Cinema will recognize a standby line at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, and seat patrons as space is available. Patrons with tickets must be seated by 6:55 p.m. to be guaranteed a seat.

Alice Waters is scheduled to be present. New 4K Restoration. A classic film of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and baking by French master Marcel Pagnol, The Baker’s Wife revolves around the centrality of bread for a small Provençal village. Marital discord between the baker—Orson Welles declared Raimu the greatest actor in the world for this role—and his wife (a role offered to Joan Crawford) becomes public business when it impacts the staple of the villagers’ diet. (2K DCP Presentation)

This film screening is presented as part of a campus visit by Alice Waters, taking place April 6–7. Behind restauratrice Waters and her world-famous Chez Panisse lies a coming-of-age story that took her to France and introduced Waters to the films of Marcel Pagnol. Indeed Pagnol’s Fanny trilogy set the tone for her modest Berkeley dining experiment and gave it its name. Now, decades later, and as a global spokesperson for real food and “edible education,” Waters presents The Baker’s Wife, the most food oriented film of Pagnol’s opus, as part of her visit to IU. This screening is sponsored by the IU Food Project; the departments of History, French and Italian, and Anthropology; the Institute for European Studies; and IU Cinema. (2K DCP Presentation)