Jean de Florette (1986)

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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative 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.

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In een Frans dorpje hebben een oude man en zijn enig levend familielid hun oog gericht op een vrijstaand huis. Ze hebben het water van het huis nodig voor hun bloemen. Ze horen echter tot hun spijt dat de nieuwe eigenaar van het huis het zal gaan bewonen, en besluiten het water te blokkeren. Ze kijken twee jaar lang toe hoeveel moeite het de nieuwe buurman kost om zijn groenten te bewateren, hetgeen zelfs ten koste gaat van zijn gezondheid.

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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 CÃ©sar (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 CÃ©sar) 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...
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(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 CÃƒÂ©sar 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).
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