Jean de Florette (1986)

Share this quote on facebook I'll never sell the house where my mother was born, and where I hope to live forever until I die as a rich man! We can get by quite well on four thousand francs! I'll buy a mule, a load of miner's tools, and some dynamite to blast this damn rock! In a year I'll pay off the mortgage, and we'll be set!

Share this quote on facebook It's over here. See. The spring was by the fig tree. Don't look back! Old man Camoins dug a trench that went down to the end of the field there. That way, the water just ran downhill. Understand? Look by my foot. See how soggy the ground is? The water's blocked, but it'd be easy to release it. That slob let it all go to waste!

Share this quote on facebook He'll sell. A pen makes less blisters than a pickax. A farmer may grow a hump, but a hunchback rarely becomes a farmer. Who would have thought that Florette would give birth to a hunchback?
Assessing Jean's likelihood of selling his inheritance.

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Share this quote on facebook If you start to strangle a cat, finish it off!

Share this quote on facebook In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I hereby name you King of Carnations!
To Ugolin

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Share this quote on facebook It's not me that's crying. It's my eyes.

Share this quote on facebook Ugolin: Is that why you rented this old farm?
Jean: I didn't rent it.
Ugolin: Did you buy it?
Jean: I didn't buy it either, but it's all mine.
Ugolin: You're not Jean de Florette, are you?
Jean: I'm Jean, and my mother was Florette. But my real name is Jean Cadoret.
Ugolin: If you'd been born here, it would be Jean de Florette.

Share this quote on facebook Cesar: Now let's talk about other things. I'm going to write to Scratcher.
Ugolin: Who's she?
Cesar: You don't know her because she left here before you were born. She had the body of an angel. They called her Scratcher because when the boys tried to kiss her she scratched their faces. She used to sharpen her nails especially. But because of this she ended up a spinster and when her parents died she went to work for the priest at Mimet. About 4 or 5 years ago the pope moved him to Crespin and she should still be with him.
Ugolin: So long as she didn't scratch him.
Cesar: Oh, at her age you don't scratch people, and because she was a friend of Florette she must still visit her. I'm going to write immediately.
Ugolin: And if she's dead?
Cesar: Not everyone my age is dead.

Share this quote on facebook Jean: [shouting at the sky, as rainclouds he'd hoped for are blocked by the hills] I'm a hunchback! Have you forgotten that? Do you think that's easy?
Aimee: Jean...
Jean: Isn't there no one, anybody up there? There's nobody up there! I'm a hunchback! Do you think that's easy? There's nobody up there.

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