The Cakes of Pont-Aven

Joël Séria (1936) is a French filmmaker and writer. In the 1970s he was a cult director and left his signature on the successful children’s film Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (Mais non pas nous délivrez du mal, 1971). He later specialized in comedies and made such films like As The Moon (Comme la lune, 1977), The Two Crocodiles (Les deux crocodiles, 1987) and Marie, the Doll (Marie-poupée, 1976). In the 1980s and ’90s he worked mostly in television. Mumu (2010) is his cinematic return. —charmainecharmaine.blogspot.com