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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
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his family.
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Depardieu lias proven himself to he an actor of range and
integrity ? France's answer to William Hurt. 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
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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
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