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Claude Berri DVD Box Set Collection - Classic French Films for Movie Lovers | Perfect for Home Theater & Film Enthusiasts
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Claude Berri DVD Box Set Collection - Classic French Films for Movie Lovers | Perfect for Home Theater & Film Enthusiasts
Claude Berri DVD Box Set Collection - Classic French Films for Movie Lovers | Perfect for Home Theater & Film Enthusiasts
Claude Berri DVD Box Set Collection - Classic French Films for Movie Lovers | Perfect for Home Theater & Film Enthusiasts
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Box set containing four classic movies from acclaimed French director Claude Berri. 'Jean De Florette' (1986) is set in Provence in the 1930s where city-bred hunchback Jean (Gerard Depardieu) brings his family to his mother's old farm with plans for an idyllic life on the land. However, his scheming neighbours, Le Papet (Yves Montand) and Ugoli (Daniel Auteil), covet his farm's little-known water source, and the resulting feud escalates towards tragedy. 'Manon Des Sources' (1986) is the sequel to 'Jean De Florette' and begins ten years after Jean's death, with his beautiful daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) still haunting the hills overlooking the land stolen from her father by Le Papet (Yves Montand) and the simple-minded Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil). When Manon learns the truth behind her father's death she sets out to wreak her revenge, depriving the entire community of their water supply just as they deprived Jean. In 'Lucie Aubrac' (1997), in World War Two occupied France, Lucie Samuel (Carole Bouquet) has to pose as her own husband Raymond's (Daniel Auteuil) mistress in order to be allowed to visit him in prison after he is arrested at a Resistance meeting. Using her underground pseudonym of Aubrac, Lucie sets about organising her fellow Resistance members to rescue Raymond, risking all of their lives in the process. Finally, 'Germinal' (1993) is set in the coal mines of Northern France during the Second Napoleonic Empire and depicts the events leading up to a disastrous and drawn out strike with Etienne Lantier (Renaud), the unemployed itinerant who is drawn into the heat and toil of the mines.
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I have watched the first three films several times. Each time, the experience is cathartic.These Berri films are faithful to life as lived in the regions and places, classes, genders and epochs -- in the case of "Jean de Florette" a disturbing picture is given of post-World War I rural life (in Provence)-- with peasant envy and rivalry, caught between miserliness and shrewd ambition. Village jealousy destroys Florette's dream of returning and improving the yield of the land. The sequel, "Manon des Sources- Manon of the Spring," brings some kind of nemesis but only ambiguous happiness. Each of these two masterworks contains unforgettable scenes and lines such as the villain Ugolin's "It is not me but my eyes that are weeping", in "Jean de Florette". I will never forget Ugolin's tortured face as he suffers the profound unhappiness of unrequited love, in "Manon des Sources".In case of "Germinal," based on Zola's novel, Berri achieves an evocation of 19th century working class life, caught in limbo between generosity and hunger at a time when a young daughter's choice to live with a lover or to marry means a loss of family income scratched from the mines. Unforgettable for me is the scene of Catherine giving herself to Chaval for buying her a ribbon. Berri's film captures the bourgeoisie's economic wealth and classic but hypocritical creed than Zola's faith and hope in change.I will share my thoughts on "Lucie Aubrac" as soon as I have viewed the film.

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