Jean Florette (1986)
17K Comedy Drama Genre André Dupon Armand Meffre Benedetto Bertino Chantal Liennel Claude Berri Clement Cal Daniel Auteuil Didier Pain Elisabeth Depardieu Ernestine Mazurowna Fransined Gérard Brach Gérard Depardieu Jean Maurel Marc Betton Marcel Berbert Marcel Champel Marcel Pagnol Margarita Lozano Pierre Nougaro Pierre-Jean Rippert Roger Souza Yves Montand 1986 8 Claude Berri French West Germany
Jean Florette: Directed by Claude Berri. With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu. 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.
“This is a marvel of story-telling. Rarely have I felt so much pain for a fictional character. The u0026quot;force of destinyu0026quot; (great sound track motif selection!) is nowhere as evidently crushing as in this movie. Iu0026#39;m astounded and stunned by the beauty of human suffering, not, of course, out of sadism but out of melancholy. Great, great movie (though the Southern French accent is very hard to understand).”
