Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A surprising story with a powerful twist of fate ending.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring [VHS] (VHS Tape)
These two movies are a masterpiece of storytelling. I am not a big fan of subtitled foreign films but the story here is way above in quality usually seen in foreign films and in my opinion better than most U.S. made films. In the first movie, Jean de Florette the story begins with a father and son in a small french village. They have this greed for a piece of adjoining land and scheme to add it to their property. This scheme and its implementation wends through both movies. At first glance the first movie can be a bit drawn out but if you stay with it and see the second movie, Manon of the Spring therein will lie the rewards. I do not wish to give too much away of the plot but by the end of the second part of the story you are guaranteed the impact of a crushing steamroller twist of fate rarely seen. However you can find them, see both movies sequentially..if not don't bother as you need both to fully appreciate the storyline. Don't miss it. Brilliant plot.
4.0 out of 5 stars
"FRENCH FLORAL FOLLIES",
By A Customer
This review is from: Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Sounds like a musical? Nope, Pagnol ["Fanny" trilogy, and those wonderful perspectives about his father and mother] had a way of looking deeply into your soul, finding the longing, showing you what could be, and taking it away .......It's the harmonica music [TOOTS THIELEMAN] that always stays with you, brings back the memories of standing on one of the dry hills, smelling the hot pine needles on the night air - all of that sensory [stuff]! For the romantic? Daniel Auteuil's face, THAT face of utter despair. The population? There's Yves Montand as the stoic, dessicated old uncle/landowner, a bitter, vitriolic, poisoned person. An underrated artist. Auteuil, as the nephew, returns from WWI with those perfect carnations, and the cycle begins ..... Gerard Depardieu,now the unassuming giant of French Cinema, a worthy successor to Jean Gabin, moves in next door as the hunchback farmer-neighbor. [His then real wife, Elizabeth plays the spouse, even son Guillaume is present in a minor role]. An epic of greed and frustration - it deserves to be held high for the absolute reflection of consequences it presents. Like a delicate souffle, slightly burnt, almost bland, with an odd bitter aftertaste it surprises you with a deep heartburn of the soul. A work about loneliness, and loss giving a fragment of hope and satisfaction at the end. Beautifully photographed on location, Claude Berri's work well deserves to be seen over and over again. It's for those moments when you feel bad about life - and need a little cheer! Companions: The original "Fanny" Trilogy [different, but soulmates].
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
|
