Nicolas Pagnol, grandson of Marcel Pagnol and a director himself, is president of the Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Films, where his role is to preserve and restore the work of his grandfather. Tom Luddy, film producer and codirector of the Telluride Film Festival, was director of PFA from 1975 to 1979.

(La Femme du boulanger). The Baker's Wife is a warm and ribald comedy based on the idea that food is the life of a community. Under trees that cast sunflecked shadows, village debates are diverted when the wife of the new baker runs off with a shepherd. Not that it surprises anyone (the postman rings twice in Provence, too), but the baker says he cannot be two things-cuckold and breadmaker-at the same time. It behooves the villagers to band together to find the wayward wife, for she is their daily bread. Even the priest capitalizes on the shepherd metaphor, but the remoteness of the Church is counterposed to the townspeople's growing compassion for this uninitiated newcomer who is so profoundly moved by his wife's metamorphosis. With the magnificent actor Raimu, this is a classic of cuckoldry, as poignant and powerful in its way as The Blue Angel.