Marcel Pagnol : time for love, time for secrets (Marcel Pagnol : le temps des amours, le temps des secrets )
Armelle DEUTSCH
Richard OIRY
Robin CAUSSE
Andrée DAMANT
Pierre MAGUELON
Back on the childhood of Marcel Pagnol.
TIME FOR SECRETS
Last vacations for Marcel Pagnol in his favourite Provence hills with his friend Lili. He is just about to start his first high school year. It is the beginning of teenage years. He meets Isabelle, his first love. He happily discovers that grown ups (his father, his grand father, his uncle Jules), each have a secret. Grown ups will thus loose their adults prestige to his eyes.
At highschool, his scholarship holder condition always exposes him to perilous situations because each time he makes a schoolboy prank he risks to loose this scholarship and dishonor his father.
TIME FOR LOVE (ep 2)
Having passed disciplinary commitee, Marcel gets to stay at highschool. He became some kind of a « leader » towards his new classmates, firming his personnality, participating to uproars… He is now sixteen years old. He is about to graduate and to experience love for the first time with Clémentine, the young neighbor who bloomed into a pretty dancer. He will also meet again Isabelle his first love but the spell is broken. Then Marcel will get conscious of his writer’s vocation. While the village is celebrating Joseph Pagnol’s « academic award », Marcel learns that his first novel has been published… He keeps it secret to preserve his father’s day of honor.
Ce sont les dernières vacances dans ses chères collines de Provence, avant l’entrée en sixième du petit Marcel Pagnol qui vient d’obtenir une bourse d’étude. C’est le début de l’adolescence, il rencontrera Isabelle, son premier amour. Et il découvrira à travers des évènements souvent cocasses que les grandes personnes (son père, son grand-père, son oncle Jules) ont chacune un secret. Elles perdront ainsi à ses yeux leur « prestige d’adulte ». Au lycée, sa condition de boursier le met toujours en péril car il risque à chaque « sottise de potache » de perdre sa bourse et de déshonorer son père.
Ayant évité le conseil de discipline, Marcel reste au lycée. Il est devenu une sorte de « leader », affirmant sa personnalité, participant aux chahuts… Il a maintenant seize ans, il va passer son bac et connaître ses premiers émois amoureux avec Clémentine, la petite voisine devenue une jolie danseuse. Puis Marcel va prendre conscience de sa vocation d’écrivain. Et alors qu’on fête au village, les « palmes académiques » de Joseph Pagnol, Marcel apprend qu’ont vient de publier son premier récit… Il laisse ce jour de gloire à son père.
