Claude Berri - Jean de Florette (1986)

Posted By : FNB47 | Date : 23 Feb 2007 21:07:00 | Comments : 10 |

Claude Berri - Jean de Florette (1986)
| 1437.5 MB | Runtime 1:55:44 | color |
Language : French
Optional subtitles : English / Turkish
Audio : mp3 , 48000 Hz , 114 Kb/s , 2-ch
Video : XviD , 1600 Kb/s , 25 frm/s , 640x272 (2.35:1)

The plot of Jean de Florette is as melodramatic as any soap opera, but its treatment is just a little askew, just off-center enough for the film to evolve into a moving and powerful pastoral tragedy. The film is a naturalistic story about the dehumanizing effect of greed on a community and on the human soul. Watching the hunchbacked Jean de Florette (Gérard Depardieu) struggle against all odds to keep his small farm alive, maintaining to the bitter end his his optimism and naive faith in his reference books, is like watching Sisyphus make his daily toil up the hill. Only here, it is not the gods who have trapped the victim, but the xenophobia and covetousness of his neighbors. -(DVD cover)

Director Claude Berri shoots the countryside in grand scope, dwarfing the human figures whose daily exertions hardly make a mark on it. As the story moves inexorably to its tragic conclusion, the wicked plotting of the simultaneously likable and vicious father (Yves Montand) and son (Daniel Auteuil) leaves the audience pleading for divine retribution. However, humans created this cruel world in Provence, and they will have to mete out their own justice. The sequel, Manon des Sources, realizes this desire for revenge with perfect poetic magnitude. -(DVD cover)

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. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0091288/plotsummary)

Certainly one of the best examples of French cinema. A searing powerful story of greed, and its effects. All the actors are excellent, Yves Montand is especially heartbreaking. This movie and its sequel are two of the best films of the 1980's. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0091288/)

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Posted By: harry Date: 23 Feb 2007 18:59:02

This is a great film, absolute perfection. I actually really got sucked into the storyline and began to hate the villagers. Everyone must see this, a masterclass in story and directing. Thank you very much for this.

Posted By: jake43 Date: 24 Feb 2007 12:51:24

Thank you for this. Please can someone tell me how to show english sub titles in the video.

Posted By: Yokomi Date: 24 Feb 2007 13:13:56

Merci pour ce joli cadeau. Je me rejouis de le revoir.

Posted By: FNB47 Date: 24 Feb 2007 15:20:18

Hello jake43,

I recommend you to use "VLC player" (it is one of the best players and it is Free... www.videolan.org)

Start VLC player and please follow these steps :

- File
- Open File
- Browse for video file name and click "Open"
- check 'Use a subtitle file' box
- Browse for subtitle file with "idx" extension
- Click "OK"

When the movie starts
- VLC menu bar
- Video
- Subtitle Track (select Track 1 or Track 2)

enjoy :)

Posted By: n4051 Date: 24 Feb 2007 16:44:43

thank you very much for the movie

Posted By: Nesara Date: 24 Feb 2007 18:52:58

Great film!
There are two other films from Provence, candid and far less dramatic, that I'd like to see again: "La gloire de mon père" and "Le chateau de ma mère" :-)

Posted By: FNB47 Date: 24 Feb 2007 20:33:17

Nesara, thanks for the information and recommendation. Never heard of those 2 films before
but I know the director of them... Yves Robert. I've seen 2 films of Yves Robert :
- La Guerre des boutons
- Les Copains (with a young Philippe Noiret... whom we lost couple of months ago)

I will try to find and watch 2 Yves Robert movies you mentioned. Thanks...

Posted By: jake43 Date: 24 Feb 2007 22:25:06

FNB.47 - Thank you very much. That is brilliant.

Posted By: harrygee Date: 25 Feb 2007 13:00:42

Along with Manon des sources this is my favourit french film so thank you once again FNB.47 for a wonderful share.

Posted By: morde16 Date: 29 Aug 2008 11:07:29

Thanks FNB47, your posts are simply amazing.

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