THE BAKER'S WIFE (1938) by Marcel Pagnol

[Wellesnet]

One of Welles's choices for greatest movies ever made when he contributed to the Sight and Sound poll of 1952:

[Colmena]

Since this was the one movie on Welles' short list of faves that was unknown to me, I'm especially pleased to note that it has just recently been re-issued by Criterion.

https://www.criterion.com/films/29390-the-baker-s-wife

Not at Netlfix yet, unfortunately.

[Wellesnet]

Criterion write up of a 2018 showing of Pagnol's film illuminates it as a link-of-sorts between Orson Welles and J.D. Salinger:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... y-restored

"...through the years it has won over an array of prominent admirers: Orson Welles called The Baker’s Wife “a perfect movie,” and J. D. Salinger approvingly referenced it in his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye, with Holden Caulfield citing his ten-year-old sister’s appreciation of the film as proof of her preternaturally sophisticated tastes."

[tonyw]

Also reviewed by none other than your very own (dis)"obedient servant"!

http://filmint.nu/theatrical-criterion-collection/