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Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources [1986]
from Pathe Distribution
starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Hippolyte Girardot, Gerard Depardieu
directed by Claude Berri

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

In Jean De Florettes an old man and his only remaining relative in a rural French village cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, so are dismayed to hear the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts they think only of getting the water. In the sequel, Manon Des Sources, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of her father in the first film.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Ridiculously over-rated French froth
  The best French film in 20 years? A masterpiece? Both of these suggestions are quite laughable and grossly overstate the importance of this film pairing in the context of French cinema as a whole which is without much doubt the greatest cinema in the world.
  Both films are rather banal, bland pedestrian adaptations of Marcel Pagnol's book (at best)and provide little in the way of cinematic poetry to justify their own existence. Claude Berri brings very little to the stories which isn't there in the... more info

• Just Beautiful
  I bought this as I am a lover of French movies and insisted my mother watch it (though she doesn't usually watch subtitled films). We didn't plan on seeing both (each film is great entertainment in its own right and creates different emotions), my mother couldn't wait for another sitting to see the second one, it's best seen back to back. So what is so great about it? Filmed in the beautiful backdrop of Provence in France, great writing, acting and casted very well, with, Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel... more info

• A masterpiece
  My brother and his girlfriend bought this for us for Christmas, which we initially thought a surprising gift as we'd never seen (or expressed a wish in seeing) a foreign language film before. Having just watched it, I have to say it was an completely inspired choice. Initially, it's the quality of the cinematography that draws you in, as the landscape of Provence and its wild animals are portrayed at their most beautiful and detailed. Then it's the tale of an idealistic young man moving out of the town to... more info

• Turn off time and be absorbed.
  You can read the reviews but please, just watch these films. Make sure your 'phone is off, your curtains are closed, everyone is watching with you or out for the weekend and assemble your neccessary acoutriments around you. Wear a nappy even! This duo takes you through the greed, stupidity, innocence, faith, hate, rage, desire and Love that is manifest in your lifetime. As fluid as the Stella for which the title music is used, and as solid as the backdrop of mountains, across which little Manon flits and... more info

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