Manon of the Spring (1986) Reviews & Ratings

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Manon of the Spring reviews

Manon of the Spring holds a 7.6/10 average from 579 TMDB ratings.

**The other half of “Jean de Florette” is the golden key that beautifully close a great work of French cinema.** This film is the sequel to “Jean de Florette” and was filmed immediately after that film, with the same cast, the same director, the same technical team, the same sets and locations. In practice, they are two films that come together like two sides of the same coin and, to understand this, it is essential…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (9/10)

Continuing on from the story of "Jeanne de Florette", we have advanced many years to find "Ugolin" (Daniel Auteuil) and his uncle "Papet" (Yves Montand) running a thriving carnation business perfectly watered by their own spring. Indeed it's quite a feet of irrigation that has enabled them to enhance the family fortune by at least 50,000 Francs. As ever, though, "Papet" is looking to the future of his dynasty and so…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

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