As a cinephile (and critic?), there are certain movies that follow you throughout your lifetime. For those who watch a lot of films—and in quick succession—people tend to assume you’ve seen everything ...

The Parisian-born Claude Berri was something of a cinematic one-man band. He began his professional life as an actor in French films but soon segued to being a writer, producer, director and ...

At times, the French countryside of Jean De Florette and Manon Of The Spring is almost unbearably beautiful. French director Claude Berri and cinematographer Bruno Nuytten set their two-part morality ...

Jean de Florette started as a two-part movie filmed in the Provence, it tells the tale of Jean and his family trying to start a new life.

The Marcel Pagnol novel that inspired Claude Berri's 1986 twin features, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, was itself a literary reworking of Pagnol's penultimate theatrical feature in 1953.

Claude Berri spent six years trying to acquire the rights to Marcel Pagnol's 1962 Water in the Hills dualogy. Inspired by Pagnol's own 1952 feature, Manon Des Sources, the story chronicled the ...

Claude Berri was a throwback: a film-maker who specialised in old-fashioned epics. He may have been a contemporary of French New Wave directors like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut (who was his ...

Re-release for highly popular French film duo from the Eighties (Manon des Sources is back next week). Depardieu plays the hunchback peasant farmer whose strangeness causes him to be persecuted by his ...