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JEAN DE FLORETTE
One Night Only – Wednesday, August 26 – 5:30pm
SBIFF’s Film Center
Won 4 BAFTA Awards including Best Film Not in the English Language.
Based on a novel by the legendary Marcel Pagnol, JEAN DE FLORETTE is (alongside MANON OF THE SPRING) the first installment in a rich, engrossing epic of greed and deception set amid the bucolic splendor of the Provence countryside. Gerard Depardieu gives one of his great performances as the hunchbacked city slicker Jean, who is determined to make a success of the farm he has inherited—unaware that his new neighbor César (Yves Montand) and his nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) have launched a ruthless scheme to take control of the land for themselves.
Directed by Claude Berri
Written by Claude Berri, Gérard Brach (based on the work of Marcel Pagnol)
Starring Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
2h
1986
