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Jean de Florette

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Jean de Florette (1987)

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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 17  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Synopsis: The first of two parts of the classic Marcel Pagnol story set in southeast France in the mid 1920s. In a small provencal village, where water is scarce and the earth dry, only one piece of property possesses an underground spring to irrigate the soil--and the wily, greedy César (Yves Montand)... The first of two parts of the classic Marcel Pagnol story set in southeast France in the mid 1920s. In a small provencal village, where water is scarce and the earth dry, only one piece of property possesses an underground spring to irrigate the soil--and the wily, greedy César (Yves Montand) will do anything to get hold of it. His dreams seem on the verge of coming true when the owner (with a little help from César) dies unexpectedly. But then Jean Cadoret (Gerard Depardieu), an outsider who inherits the farm, arrives with the intention of settling down and cultivating the land with his good-hearted wife Aimee (played by Depardieu's real wife, Elisabeth Depardieu) and young daughter Manon (Ernestine Mazurowna). Jean, a hunchback and sensitive dreamer, glories in his new life while César and his nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) secretly decide to stop up the spring so his plans will fail. The good-hearted Jean, too naive to imagine that anyone would sabotage him, struggles fruitlessly to make his garden bloom. His continual failure erodes his spirit, setting the stage for a tragedy with consequences for all. Director Claude Berri focuses a well-trained eye on the heart-stopping scenery of the rural provencal landscape in this beautifully filmed tragedy, establishing a farmer's reverence for his land and native soil. Gerard Depardieu delivers an unforgettable performance as the failed dreamer. Followed by Berri's MANON DES SOURCES (MANON OF THE SPRING). [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano

Director: Claude Berri
Screenwriter: Claude Berri, Gerard Brach
Composer: Jean-Claude Petit, Giuseppe Verdi

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 23, 2001

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen
  • Single Side - Single Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital - French

Additional Release Material:

  • Theatrical Trailer

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An emotionally affecting morality tale about greed and undeserved anguish.

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Beautiful, carefully groomed, French epic.

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Greg Muskewitz
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You may also become permanently sick of goats. But after Jean, a rich residue of themes and images remains -- much as after reading a long but great novel or Greek tragedy.

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Desson Thomson
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