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| 100% Recommended by our customers. Studio: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT Catalog: DVD Release date: 2007-07-24 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1987-12 Running time in minutes: 235 DVD aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1987-12 Ean: 0027616082701 Upc: 027616082701  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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Disc 1 Side A: **Widescreen Feature Film - Jean de Florette Disc 2: **Widescreen Feature Film - Manon of the Spring |
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Written on April 18, 2008 Summary: Long (4 hrs), slow but worthy... Movie is set in a small rurul village in southeast France in the 1920's. Water is scarce and the earth is parched. Cesar and Ugolin scheme to acquire neighboring land that has access to precious spring water in order to feed a new carnation growing business. An outsider, Jean, a city dweller, a former tax collector and a Hunchback, inherits the farm. Jean settles in the property and begins farming the land and raising rabbits with his wife, and daughter Manon. They struggle to battle the drought and also unbeknownst to them, are working against Cesar and Ugolin. Beautiful cinematography showing the French countryside landscape. Terrific acting by Gerard Depardieu (Jean the Hunchback), Yves Montand (playing Cesar) and Daniel Auteuil (playing Ugolin). Depardieu is particularly good in his role as Hunchback who is an eternal optimist, dreamer and a genuinely good person. Movie can be slow in parts but the story is engaging and holds your interest right until the end. You live and feel the anguish of the major characters in the movie. Highly recommended. Written on April 8, 2008 Summary: Merveileux! A touching story beautifully written and acted. Yves Montand and Daniel Auteill are fascinating in their talks centered around a malignant plan to steal their unsuspecting neighbor's land in order to have a plentiful supply of water for a flower-growing enterprise. The movie flows easily, like a stream, reminding us of the importance of water to a farmer and breaking our hearts as we are forced to watch a man go nearly mad with fatigue and dashed hopes. The film captivates and holds the viewer's attention with its beauty and simplicity as it moves to it's shattering ending. Written on April 8, 2008 Summary: Pure Passion Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring (MGM World Films) Both of these films are pure passion for life and the simple things made beautiful , struggles, sadness, joy........ You will laugh, cry, Gerard Depardieu is fabulous....Yves Montand also wonderful ..... You will not regret a moment......Remember they are French films so there will be subtitles..... Worth it!!!! Written on March 26, 2008 Summary: A "Must See" movie! Great family movie - fun for adults and young people. It is not often you find such a wonderful story that is presented in such an entertaining, yet moving, fashion. Also, the scenery is breathtaking and the acting is superb. It's a movie everyone should see -- and once seen, will want to see again and again! Written on March 19, 2008 Summary: Don't Watch one without the Other I had been impressed that I was getting 2 films on the same DVD for the price of one. It wasn't until I watched them both that I realized how essential each one was to the other. "Jean De Florette" very ably sets the table while "Manon of the Spring" delivers the feast. Together they comprise 4 hours of film excellence (which is probably why they are listed as seperate movies). The plot is the age-old story of greed. In this case a childless man welcomes home his nephew from his military service. They both have plans in this rural mountainous part of France (near the Pyrennes?). What they need to make their plans come through is the next farm over with its' adequate spring water. It turns out to be necessary to "arrange" for the farm to become available but an heir to the farm turns up to gladly become a transplanted farmer with all the books to show him how to do it. The uncle and nephew conspire to make "arrangements" with the new owner in order to make the farm available to them (they plugged the spring so the farm wouldn't seem worth so much). Something major happens that brings the first film to an end. We pick it up 10 years (or so) later and, it seemed to me, the best of the two movies had come and gone. However, the second movie slowly and deliberately comes to an elaborate series of events and information that left me in a sort of awesome sadness and appreciation. A personal note about the final 15 or so minutes of the movie. I discovered that my Tivo could not play a DVD and record off the TV at the same time. All of a sudden, I lost the movie I was watching and started watching the lesser movie that I had set up to reco (I'm always challenged when my TV does things I didn't think it should do). I mention this because just before that happened, "The End" appeared on "Manon of the Spring". I assumed all I was missing was the cast and credits so I went to bed. The next morning I played out the end only to discover there was more to the movie; much more. The movie I thought had ended rather simplisticly evolved into a dramaticly powerful crescendo of emotion. It changed my whole impression of the two-movie experience. The two movies together make as powerful a statement as I have viewed on film of the concept that we are our brother's keepers; that every man or woman whom we meet as a stranger ought to depart as a friend. The universal responsibility to do unto others as we would have them do unto us is brilliantly told in this movie duet. Oddly, I don't even thing the main character leaves the movie with this knowledge. He probably only realized that he erred only in failing to reach out to one person and his family. However, I think the audience comes away with the big picture. I know I did. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2007-07-24 | 2002-11-05 | 2002-11-05 | 2001-01-23 | 2004-02-10 | 2007-11-13 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1987-12 | 1991-08 | 1991-09 | 1988-03-04 | 1990-12 | 2007 |
| Running time in minutes | 235 | 110 | 99 | 102 | 137 | 141 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 2.35:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.66:1 | 2.35:1 |
| Audience Rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | G (General Audience) | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | G (General Audience) | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Picture format | - | - | - | Letterbox | - | - |
| Format | Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0027616082701 | 9780792853879 | 9780792853886 | 9780792848394 | 9780792859635 | 0026359441226 |
| Book Isbn | - | 0792853873 | 0792853881 | 079284839X | 0792859634 | - |
| Upc | 027616082701 | 027616880635 | 027616880642 | 027616857958 | 027616902276 | 026359441226 |
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