Product: Jean de Florette (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Deservedly A Big Art House Hit
This film beautifully and gracefully brings the most universal topic of all, human nature, to the screen version of Pagnol's celebrated novel. Yves Montand's character greedily wants Gerard Depardiu's character's adjacent farm so he deviously plots against him yet lures him into thinking that he is his good, trusted friend. This is not played on a grand scale but on a human and intimate scale. There is also no motive besides outright greed. The French location shooting is gorgeous and adds much to the film's impact. This was a huge art house hit in the 1980s upon its release in the USA.