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Jean de Florette
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Jean de Florette (1986) -- A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

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Claude Berri (adaptation)
Gérard Brach (adaptation)
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August 1987 (USA) more
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A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 15 nominations more
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French Filmmaker Berri Dead At 74
 (From WENN. 12 January 2009, 8:10 AM, PST)

Depardieu Acts Saintly
 (From WENN. 26 September 2002)

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Flowers Mean Forgiveness more (73 total)

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120 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Factual errors: During one scene, Cesar Soubeyran (Montand) produces a small telescope in order to spy on Jean de Florette (Depardieu); however, as he peers through it, the lens cap is clearly in place. more
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Cesar Soubeyran: A farmer may become a hunchback but it's rare for a hunchback to become a farmer. more
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Flowers Mean Forgiveness, 21 December 2003
Author: writers_reign

Marcel Pagnol was rightly admitted into the Acadamie Francaise, just about the highest honor a French writer can receive. No less a major force than Orson Welles described Pagnol's own movie 'La Femme du Boulanger' (The Baker's Wife) as the greatest movie ever made. For someone with a limited canvas - Provence, its small hamlets, the port of Marseilles, and the people who lived there - he sure extracted the maximum mileage. Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Source has now arguably become the highest profile of all Pagnol's work eclipsing even the great trilogy 'Marius', 'Cesar' and 'Fanny' featuring the great Raimu, and his two autobiographical works My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. It is very gratifying for someone with a healthy streak of cynicism in their makeup to read such glowing tributes to this movie. If French cinema NEEDED an ambassador, which it doesn't, then these two titles - shot back to back as Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, lay dying - could not be bettered. To add any superlatives to those already posted here would be superfluous so just let me say that Montand is at the top of his game and that is saying something. Superb entertainment with terrific ensemble playing. An all-time great. 11/10

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