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Todays NYTimes Best 1176 Film was part two of the epic beginning with Jean de Florette; Claude Barri's

Manon des Sources / Manon of the Spring

The water comes and goes and then comes back again and this conclusion is totally satisfying and quite surprising.

At least I didn't see 'it' coming.

Yves Montand and Daniel Autieul are wonderful villains to watch as they get their comeuppance. The other actors are great to watch.

It is a fine film.

I assume that it was all shot at the same time. Why the two films were not distributed together is a mystery.

We saw the first one in theaters and were quite turned off at the no-conclusion conclusion. We never went to the second one.

I guess we didn't read the right publicity.

Nevertheless, it is remedied by this fine disc which you simply flop over to get the second half.

And this will be the first film to get a 5 out of Netflix5 on the new marking curve. A fiver here really means something.

Labels: best films