The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned auteur Marcel Pagnol (the Marseille trilogy) shines through in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy from 1938. Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker snowball into a scandal that engulfs the entire community. Presenting the director’s abiding concern for the experiences of ordinary people with an understated visual style, The Baker’s Wife is at once wonderfully amusing and piercingly perceptive in its nuanced treatment of the complexities of human relationships.

New 4K restoration by the Compagnie méditerranéenne de films–MPC with the support of the CNC and ARTE France.