If you loved Manon of the Spring, try Jean de Florette
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Claude Berri, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, gut punch, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Manon of the Spring, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Jean de Florette is
City mouse plots sabotage against a hunchbacked heir who inherits dirt. They dam the spring he needs to farm. His scrabbling for water withers his family while their joy grows fat on his ruin.
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