Thankful Our Father Is Not The Well Digger
I recently watched The Well Digger’s Daughter on Netflix. It’s a subtitled French film about a widowed well digger raising his six daughters in the Provence countryside at the start of World War I. The film got 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I expected it to be pretty good.
The movie is beautiful and all french-like (if you’re into that sort of thing).
The plot of the film has the well digger’s oldest daughter Patricia returning home from Paris to help raise her sisters. Her father hopes to marry her off to his loyal well-digging assistant…
But when she’s impregnated by a wealthy young pilot who promptly abandons… Read More