My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon père)

Plot Summary

At the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in Aubagne in the Provence countryside. His mother, Augustine, is a dressmaker, his father Joseph a teacher. When Marcel is only three, Joseph and Augustine move to Saint-Loup, in the suburbs of Marseilles. As the years go by and young Marcel begins to grow up, his family expands to include a little brother and a baby sister, and his father receives a promotion to a permanent teaching position in Marseilles! One summer, his father decides that they should spend their holiday in the hills of Provence at a villa which he has rented with Jules, who is married to Augustine's sister Rose. While there, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.