Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954)

Les Lettres de mon moulin is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1954, directed by Marcel Pagnol.  The film stars "Prologue": Henri Crémieux, Roger Crouzet; "Les Trois messes basses": Henri Vilbert, René Sarvil, Marcel Daxely; "L’Elixir du père Gaucher": Robert Vattier and Guy Alland; "Le Secret de Maître Cornille": Yvonne Gamy.  It has also been released under the title: Letters from My Windmill.  Our overall rating for this film is: very good.


Alphonse Daudet purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of rural France, to write a series of short stories.   In the first, "The Three Low Masses", a priest with a love of food tries to get his clerical duties out of the way as fast as possible so that he can partake of his Christmas feast.  In "The Elixir of Father Gaucher", a monk manages to rescue his brothers from poverty by distilling and selling a powerful elixir, but ends up succumbing to its charms himself.    Finally, in "The Secret of Master Cornille", an ageing miller tries to keep up the illusion that his windmill enables him to earn a living, in spite of the fact that all the villagers make use of the more efficient steam-driven flour mills.

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