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Disfigurement Major 
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TITLE |
Jean
de Florette (1986) |
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DISABILITY |
Disfigurement Hunchback Learning Difficulty |
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NOTES |
An exquisite
film of epic proportions, in fact the story is |
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continued in
"Manon of the Spring" (Manon des Sources). |
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Set in the
1920s a tax collector inherits a plot of land in |
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Provence and
moves with his family there and becomes a |
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farmer. But
he faces the challenge of the land and its need |
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for water,
and the hostility of his neighbours. |
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Depardieu as
the tax collector who is a hunchback is as good as he can
be. Yves Montand as an old farmer scheming with his nephew
gives one of his finest performances. And Daniel Auteuil as
the nephew who carries out the dirty work and considered
'simple-minded' captures a mix of the na∩f and the knave. |
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In the
continuation of the film in "Manon of the Spring" (Manon |
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des Sources)
it is one of Florette's daughters (played by |
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Emanuelle
Beart) . who continues and wins the battle. At the |
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end it is a
blind woman who tells them of a letter from Florette. |
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From the
novel by Marcel Pagnol |
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Notes
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