1986 ‘Manon des Sources’ Directed by Claude Berri
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
Yves Montand Daniel Auteuil Emmanuelle Béart Hippolyte Girardot Margarita Lozano Yvonne Gamy Ticky Holgado Jean Bouchaud Elisabeth Depardieu Gabriel Bacquier Armand Meffre André Dupon Pierre Nougaro Jean Maurel Roger Souza Didier Pain Pierre-Jean Rippert Marc Betton Chantal Liennel Lucien Damiani Fransined Françoise Trompette
Manon og kilden, La venganza de Manon, Die Wasser der Hügel - Manons Rache, Jean de Florette Del 2 - Manons källa
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Director Claude Berri's sequel to Jean De Florette is a wickedly delicious tale of revenge and karmic justice!
Manon (Emmanuelle Béart) the feral beauty seeks vengeance against the two men (Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil) whom conspired against her father in the previous film!
Secrets, twists and explosive consequences drive this film to its uber dramatic conclusion!
Fabulous and deeply satisfying! Cinematography to die for!
Poetic justice. Claude Berri’s sequel to Jean de Florette is an improvement in all the right ways, finalising the various threads left unwoven in the first instalment. Whilst the first half follows a similar path to Florette, revelling in the nostalgia through its awe-inspiring music and beautifully photographed landscapes, the latter half takes on a whole new form. With its concluding twenty minutes delivering what’s undoubtedly one of the greatest twists the screen has ever seen, it’s a genuine shame more people haven’t experienced this masterwork. Few revelatory tales rival it, Yves Montand’s rueful performance anchoring the tragedy all the more. Emmanuelle Béart’s radiance mirrors the heavenly allure of Provence perfectly, making all of the pieces fit, and leaving me…
OK, hands up who's a complete sap for the impressionist paintings of Pierre-August Renoir. Not just me I'm guessing, and in this classically drawn film, Claude Berri captured the very essence of the French countryside, it's history and the people that lived it.
Starring the top-form and eternally effervescent Emmanuelle Béart, Manon des Sources is the sequel to Jean de Florette, and was released in the same year. It centres on daughter Manon's quest to bring justice to the men that wronged her family.
A romantic film full of beauty, deceit, treachery and lush Provencal scenery told in a compelling manner by a cast of fantastic performers, this is everything I look for in French cinema. Gorgeous.
I've put off reviewing this film for the last week or so because there's not a lot I have to say about it. As a direct sequel to the brilliant "Jean de Florette" it does a good job of threading the same narrative beats and themes of its predecessor. However, the biggest issue is that Manon herself is just not as interesting as Gérard Depardieu's Jean.
The film feels lackadaisical when compared to "Jean de Florette." I was close to giving this film a three and a half star rating but the last twenty or so minutes are by far and away the best part of the film. It ends on a cathartic yet deeply sad and tragic note. Driving…
Like the first part of this epic story, this continuation is subtly and acutely directed by French filmmaker Claude Berri and with it's ardent milieu depictions and efficient narrative structure, it draws an incessantly engaging portrayal of a young French woman who has been waiting several years to get justice for what happened to her family a decade earlier in time. The young woman named Manon is played by Emmanuelle Béart, an actress who owns this movie with hardly saying a word at all. We feel her every emotion all through the glances of her eyes that repress all the feelings until the final implosion held behind her blond, fiery, almost leonine hair.
In fact, like in the first film,…
"I won't help those who stole my father's water." ~ Manon Cadoret
The sequel to Jean de Florette picks up ten years after the last efforts of hunchback Jean Cadoret to farm in the French countryside. His daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Béart) is now a lone goat herder, and she uncovers the role played by the neighboring Soubeyrans (Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil) in thwarting his dream. Enraged by this knowledge, Manon stumbles upon an opportunity for revenge, depriving not only the Soubeyrans but all the local residents of water.
This film adds some new cast members, notably Hippolyte Girardot as the local teacher Bernard Olivier and Yvonne Gamy as the old blind woman Delphine, who was once a friend of…
"An orphan's prayer soars to heaven like a lark."
Manon of the Spring is the sequel to "Jean de Florette". It ties both films together perfectly. In this film, Manon the hunchback's daughter, exacts her revenge by stopping the spring which feeds the local village. It's also the old blind woman reveals the heart breaking and utterly tragic truth to the one man who has hurt Manon the most. In the end, this greedy, wretched man loses everything, literally and Manon gains everything. Manon of the Spring is an exquisite film. Overall, the cinematography is incredible, the storytelling is brilliant and the acting is unforgettable.
The conclusion of Claude Berri’s Jean de Florette hinted rather broadly that Jean’s young daughter, Manon, would be putting a serious beating on the last surviving Soubeyran’s; the self-interested scheming Caesar and his simpleton, morally dichotic, nephew, Ugolin. Failing that, I hoped that Manon would be removed from the story entirely, and would become, like the first film, only a silent observer. I had hoped for the same comedic to tragic arc, or a tragic to comic arc, mirroring the first installment. Alas, that wasn’t to be.
I find it hard to rationalize that both of these films were shot simultaneously, with the same director at the helm; that Jean de Florette’s sophisticated palette could be related to this second…
nothing will ever compare to my entire french class gasping in horror while ugolin fucking sewed her ribbon to his nipple
Yes, sweet, sweet revenge.
P.S Emmanuelle Beart is one of the most beautiful woman I have seen on screen.
- Fuck me up on a good vengeful daughter story tbh
- FYI Angel Olsen told me this is one of her favorite movies
- There's a joke to be made here about the men being literally thirsty
- Watching this right after the prequel, Jean de Florette, I kept thinking how together they could be like Settlers of Catan: The Movie??? First part is, like, about a selfish dude hogging all the resources/harbors and refusing to trade and then in part two Manon rolls a seven and puts down the robber and cuts them off from the spring you know....... Pls ignore me thank you.
