Film set in the XVIII-XIX century about a “witch” that saves two brothers

Ok, so all I remember is that the movie starts with two kids that are brothers and they get inside a forest and one of them falls into a river. His big brother yells for help and then a woman and his daughter (that are considered witches because they are healers and live in the forest) save him from drowning.

The girl tells the big brother that some day he’ll have to pay for some kind of herbs they give him to heal the other kid.
Years pass and everyone grows up, the two brothers are quite rude with the witches, specially the one they saved. The other one not so much. The girl insist that he must pay his debt and askes her to go with her to some kind of ball in the village. He says he will but of course, he doesn’t. Then I remember another scene where the young “witch” goes to the market to sell her herbs or whatever and there’s this girl I think that fell and was sore, and she tries to heal her but the mother arrives and start calling her witch and she runs away, refussing the help from the guy that didn’t show up.
Then I remember nothing and in the end I know that the big spoiled brother gives up on everything and ends up with the witch girl.

Oh, and I think, but I’m not sure that she had a weird name and her hair was messy and combed in a side ponytail and wore a white shirt with no shoulders.  Also I recall that the actress looked a bit like Sophie Marceau… but probably not, because I saw it a long long time ago. I did look up if she was in that film but it wasn’t her. Thank you ! 🙂

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