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 ...

Pouvait-il y avoir un meilleur film dédié à Chabrol ? Jean de Florette capture l'entièreté de ce qui faisait son univers, cette ambiance qu'on ne trouve qu'à l'aune de la lavande et de son soleil bien ...

Claude Berri, a fixture for more than 50 years in contemporary French cinema as an actor, writer, director and producer, died Monday. He was 74.His agent, Dominique Segall, said Berri died of a ...

France 3 diffuse ce jeudi 26 décembre au soir le film Jean de Florette. L'occasion de découvrir le nom de l'humoriste français qui aurait dû à l'origine être à la place de Daniel Auteuil à l'écran. À ...

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed ...

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 ...

Aubagne is "a commune dedicated to peace", say the road signs erected by the Communist-led town hall. Aubagne is also a rapidly expanding town at war with itself. Just east of Marseilles, it has ...

C'est un personnage célibataire d'un village reculé qui a pour famille un neveu(le Papet et Ugolin). Il a tué accidentellement une autre personne alors qu'il voulait acheter sa propriété . Un héritier ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French director and producer Claude Berri, whose films included the international hit "Jean de Florette," has died, the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. He was 74.

Veteran French filmmaker Claude Berri, whose half-century of work ranged from adapting Jean de Florette to producing Roman Polanski's Tess, has died in Paris after being rushed to hospital on Sunday.

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The story is a simple one about a man (Gérard Depardieu) who inherits a piece of land in the country. He wants nothing more than ...

Details: 1986, France, Italy, Rest of the world, Cert PG, 122 mins Direction: Claude Berri Genre: Drama Summary: Gerard Depardieu stars as the naive city-dweller who dreams of turning his inherited ...