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French film ab< By PATRICK J KAN Features editor At first glance, the French film Jean de Florette doesn't seem to have any qualities that would appeal to American audiences. After all, it's not set in modern times, and there's no sex or violence. But at second glance, it combines a theme of greed, deception and tragedy with a strong script and lush cinematography to become a talc that is downbeat, yet alluring. i nc mm is set in the early iv/us in a larm community in southeastern France. "Papet" Soubeyran (Yves Mon tand) is an aging bachelor and oldest surviving Inember of his family. He plans to will his land to his "heir," nephew Ugolin (Daniel Autcuil). Ugolin grows a set of beautiful carnations that bring a good price at the town market. Being the only item on the Soubeyran lands that would yield a big profit, he and Papet plot to get more property and water to fill the hillside with the flowers. A neighbor with a large amount of land and an underground spring violently rejects Papct's offer to buy his property, then dies in a fight with him. The Soubeyrans plug the spring, expecting to easily buy the land from its inhcritants. But Jean de Florcttc (Gerard Depardieu), a hunchback I WTMTTTD PT T? A D t - | YT XXI X XJX\ V/XJXJX Xl\l BENETTt I 5 Pts.-Cola Mai I Save $$$'s Now l-Hurry In For Best Se I CLOSE OUT SI BENETTOI ASHLAND FA Everything Musi #l? 111111 ivnnti N i W| | We need a B Spring 1 ,B#b#H#B#S#SC BMlO.tHJ ?Daytor 7 nights, <Ri4=; nn HgpgJH ^ JL. AV w H ?Nassau O ^ nights If $405.00 Contact CI S>i rj IOU1 CU r Tuesday Febri E sponsored t 1 m I Cinemath ? out greedand^ "Papet" Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and nephew IJgolln ( piece of farmland In Jean de Horette. cd city dweller who claims the farm, has other ideas. He fallc in lutf li tho nlanninn t a <> it n IMIIJ in ivfv "mi uiv uivu, t 11111 i\vj mtifw ii a home for his wife and daughter. 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He carries f this film with a restrained, heartwarming performance as t a man who is intelligent, but all too good hearted. ["-^4-kTAuteuil also does well as weak-willed Ugolin. His ex pansivc voice and face show his character's pangs of conscience and the inner greed that eventually triumphs. [ - ; But the film's biggest asset is director Claude Herri. His ? camera exudes the beauty of the French countryside, and ! ?' ; his screenplay adaptation of Marcel I'agnol's novel has an rrv j emotional richness rarely seen in American or foreign films. r~ Jean (h> Horette is a tragedy that is unsettling to watch, but fulfilling at the same time. It has the human depth and r~ 5 visual extravagance of a three-hour epic, all nicely com- I pacted into a two-hour format. 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