Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to Claude Berri's Jean de Florette. Both films are drawn from the same source: Filmmaker/novelist Marcel Pagnol's 1952 rural romance, also titled Jean de Florette. Manon (Emmanuelle Beart), now fully grown, is a shepherdess who ...
Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu) and his family -- consisting of ...
One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just left him. Living on his own for the first time in years, Jacques decides it's high time to clean up his life, literally and figuratively. In short order he hires Laura (Emilie ...
Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farming community. City dweller Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) assumes ownership of the spring when the original owner is accidentally killed by ...
Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a triumphant return to leading roles in the charming, poignant The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant). Simon plays a likeable old soak with one significant character flaw: he is a flagrant anti-Semite. During the Nazi ...
During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a prosecutor. After his release, Raymond is given a ...
Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a middle-class family man who agrees to shelter many of those who've lost their homes. The polyglot of political beliefs held by these new tenants sows the seeds of discontent. The most vocal of the town's dissidents are the ...
French director Claude Berri wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy as Claude, a bookstore owner whose personal life, like his struggling business, is failing. Claude is trapped in a loveless marriage to Isabelle (Juliet Berto), who does not seem to possess any sexual attraction to her husband or affection for her children. The only activity ...
In this frothy and sexy French farce, a pair of middle-aged pals go on a vacation with their two teenage daughters. The trouble begins when one of the friends gets entangled with the others' daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Description: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau. Run time: 112. Originally released: 1997. Many scratches and spots. Taiwan released. SAME artwork. Worldwide playable. Original French. Hidden English & Chinese subtitles. Movie description in English & Chinese on artwork & disc. Original DVD jewel case. Legal with bar... read more
Cinematographer-Philippe Rousselot; Editor-Noëlle Boisson; Producer-Claude Berri; Producer-Pierre Grunstein; Writer-Gérard...
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Cinematographer-Bruno Nuytten; Writer-Claude Berri; Editor-Arlette Langmann; Producer-Alain Poiré; Producer-Pierre Grunstein;...
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Format: DVD
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 1987
UPC:027616082701
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Cinematographer-Bruno Nuytten; Writer-Claude Berri; Editor-Arlette Langmann; Producer-Alain Poiré; Producer-Pierre Grunstein;...
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Description: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry, Renaud. Language: French. read more
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