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Jean de Florette ()

directed by Claude Berri
featuring Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna

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Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when the original owner is accidentally killed by covetous farmer Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand). Soubeyran and his equally disreputable nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) pull every dirty trick in the book to force Cadoret off his land, ...

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Jean de Florette [Blu-ray] 2015, AMLF

UPC: 9344256012419

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Jean de Florette [Blu-ray]

2015, Blu-Ray

UPC:

9344256012419

Jean de Florette

2012, DVD

UPC:

0829381611434

Jean De Florette

2001, DVD

UPC:

0027616857989

Jean de Florette

1986, DVD

UPC:

5060002830222

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WILMOM

Oct 13, 2011

Good One!

Subtitles notwithstanding, this is a good movie; one well worth watching.

jvsvh29

May 14, 2009

Beautifully made

This film is part one of a beautifully constructed story -- Manon des Sources (Manon of the Spring) is part two -- and together they weave a perfectly plotted story of love, avarice, longing and revenge. The acting is superb, the pacing and rhythm are perfect, and the setting is beautiful, and crucial to the story.

Jean de Florette is the essential set-up for the second part of the story - don't skip it. It is a little weaker than Manon, mainly because the character of Jean is almost one-dimensional -- the Good Man, loving and generous, in tune with the earth. This is forgivable, because other characters are layered and complex, and because the story is in the web of relationships and the consequences of small acts over decades.

Water plays a key role in both films, and motivations -- love, patrimony, revenge, regret -- flow through every development. The ending of the second film feels inevitable, even though it surprises.

Together, these two films are on my top ten list.

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