Jean de Florette Movie Review 1987

The first of two films (with "Manon of the Spring") based on Marcel Pagnol's novel. A single spring in drought-ridden Provence, France is blocked by two scheming countrymen (Montand and Auteuil). They await the imminent failure of the farm nearby, inherited by a city-born hunchback, whose chances for survival fade without water for his crops. A devastating story with a heartrending performance by Depardieu as the hunchback. Lauded and awarded; in French with English subtitles.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 122 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Books to Film: Marcel Pagnol, Farm Livin'

Screenplay

Claude Berri, Gerard Brach

Cast

Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Ernestine Mazurowna, Margarita Lozano, Armand Meffre

Cinematography

Bruno Nuytten

Director

Claude Berri

Music

Jean-Claude Petit

Producer

Pierre Grunstein, Orion Pictures

Awards

British Acad. 1987: Adapt. Screenplay, Film, Support. Actor (Auteuil); Cesar 1987: Actor (Auteuil), Support. Actress (Beart).