Jean de Florette (1986)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Synopsis:
In twenties Provence a wily uncle and his flower-growing nephew block the spring of a coveted property and then watch while the inheritor's ambitious plans go to wrack and ruin.
Review:
Pagnol's most portentous work is given the full treatment here, complete with Verdi soundtrack, and the fabulous, mythical overtones come through with great power at times. Still, the detail of its protagonist's fight to the death is Zolaesque in its repetitiveness. The film was a flagship for minister of culture Jack Lang's project to reinvigorate the nation's pride in its cultural heritage and at the same time designed to sound a ringing endorsement of some basic socialist ideals of the 1930s. It worked and a new genre was born, the 'cinéma de patrimoine'.
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Synopsis:
In twenties Provence a wily uncle and his flower-growing nephew block the spring of a coveted property and then watch while the inheritor's ambitious plans go to wrack and ruin.
Review:
Pagnol's most portentous work is given the full treatment here, complete with Verdi soundtrack, and the fabulous, mythical overtones come through with great power at times. Still, the detail of its protagonist's fight to the death is Zolaesque in its repetitiveness. The film was a flagship for minister of culture Jack Lang's project to reinvigorate the nation's pride in its cultural heritage and at the same time designed to sound a ringing endorsement of some basic socialist ideals of the 1930s. It worked and a new genre was born, the 'cinéma de patrimoine'.
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 121m
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Synopsis:
In twenties Provence a wily uncle and his flower-growing nephew block the spring of a coveted property and then watch while the inheritor's ambitious plans go to wrack and ruin.
Review:
Pagnol's most portentous work is given the full treatment here, complete with Verdi soundtrack, and the fabulous, mythical overtones come through with great power at times. Still, the detail of its protagonist's fight to the death is Zolaesque in its repetitiveness. The film was a flagship for minister of culture Jack Lang's project to reinvigorate the nation's pride in its cultural heritage and at the same time designed to sound a ringing endorsement of some basic socialist ideals of the 1930s. It worked and a new genre was born, the 'cinéma de patrimoine'.