Which french movie was shot, together with Manon des Sources, over a period of seven months reception indeed?
Reception The movie was a great success in its native France, where it was seen by over seven million people.[9] Also internationally it performed very well; in the United States it grossed nearly five million dollars, placing it among the 100 most commercially successful foreign-language movies shown there.[10] Critical reception for Jean de Florette was almost universally positive. Rotten Tomatoes reports that it received 100% positive reviews, based on 17 different reviewers, with an average rating of 8/10.[11] Rita Kempley, writing for The Washington Post, compared the story to the fiction of William Faulkner. Allowing that it could indeed be “a definitive French masterwork”, she reserved judgement until after the premier of the second part, as Jean de Florette was only a “half-movie”, “a long, methodic buildup, a pedantically paced tease”.[6] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commented on Berri’s exploration of human character, “the feeling that the land is so important the hum
