Jean de Florette

In class today, we finished the movie Jean de Florette. The movie takes place in Provence, France and involves two families and the land one of them owns. It starts out with character, Galinette, coming home from World War I to his uncle Cesar, who has the nickname Papet. Soon, Galinette shows Papet his passion for flowers and he want to make a living on them. Flowers need good land and water and Papet's land is not sufficient. Fortunately, their neighbors' property has a spring which would be a huge plus. Papet and Galinette go over to the property and to negotiate, which was a failure, and the neighbor eventually dies by falling on a rock. Eager to get the property, Galinette and Papet are heartbroken to see a relative of the neighbor, Jean and his family, move into the home. Unfortunately, Jean has a hum on his back. Galinette and Papet know that there is a spring on the property, so they block it. Jean, Aimee, and Manon, Jean's wife and child, live happily on the property. Jean then buys supplies for rabbit breeding and for farming, leaving him and his family with next to no money. All of Jean's aspirations on the property fail miserably because the nearest water source is one mile away, even though there is one on his property and he doesn't even know it! In the middle of the drought that France is having, Jean decides to dig a well, but dies from a dynamite accident. After that, Galinette and Papet buy the property and unclog the well. Manon, suffering without her father, find them unclogging it and the movie ends. Overall, the movie was very good. I enjoyed the movie the minute Mr. Ebiner pressed play. The acting in the movie was superb and therefore, I could really put myself into all the character's shoes. I would reate this movie an eight and one half out of ten.