It’s best to sit back and luxuriate in the film’s unhurried pleasures: crisp Mediterranean settings, Alexandre Desplat’s mournful score and a clutch of likeable performances, especially when an exuberant Auteuil is sparring with scene-stealing veteran Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
This second installment of Daniel Auteuil’s adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille trilogy is marginally more entertaining than its predecessor.
General release. Check local listings for show times.