Jean de Florette is a beautiful movie about farming. Jean the hunchback inherited a farm in Provence and comes with his wife and little daughter, Manon. His neighbour, the Soubeyrans, want to buy the farm, because the land is fertile and has a spring. Jean refuses to sell, so the Soubeyrans, Ugolin and his uncle César, block the spring. No matter how hard Jean tries, without water, everything he plans is failed, until at last he dies from an explosion while making a digging well.
In this sequel, Jean’s little daughter, Manon, has become a lovely girl. Her mother has sold the farm to the Soubeyrans and returned to the city. Manon stays near the farm with an elderly couple who teach her how to tend the goats and hunt rabbits and birds. Ugolin, who has become rich by selling carnations, sees Manon and falls desperately in love with her. However, Manon has seen him and César unblocking the spring in her father’s land, a short while before the explosion which killed her father, and knows that the Soubeyrans are behind her father’s ruins. When her goat falls into a crevice, she finds the main source of the spring which supplies water for the village and local farms. She blocks the spring as a revenge.
Manon des Sources is as beautiful as its prequel and in the ending, we learn that Monsieur Jean, who the villagers hated because he is deformed and an outsider, is the long waited son of César. The main actors, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, and Emmanuel Beart, are wonderful.
Moral of the story: Always be kind to everybody, because you never know if the one you hate turns out to be someone you have always waiting of.
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