Les Lettres de mon moulin (1954) - film review

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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