Product: Manon of the Spring (1987)
Rating: 3.0
Manon of the Spring - Korean version
This together with Part I, Jean de Florette. is one of the greatest movies of all time. I am rating this version 3 stars instead of 5, because of some curious censorship in this version. The theatrical release has a brief nude scene of the exquisite Emmanuelle Beart. This scene is not only essential in revealing her beauty and innocent joy, it is essential to understand Ugolin's growing madness regarding her. In the Korean version, the nude scene is blocked out, as if we are looking through a translucent piece of glass. Very strange. Still, as the American version has inexplicably gone out of circultion, the Korean version is all that is available right now.