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Jean de Florette
1986 · Film · 122 min
Part of The Water of the Hills Collection
Directed by Claude Berri
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
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Jean de Florette (1986) and its conclusion Manon des Sources (1986), great 80s French movies, top notch cast you would even recognize in the US. Also Le château de ma mère (1990) and La gloire de mon père (1990). I haven’t watched the second pair since I was a small boy, but I remember being captivated.
A complete tangent is this Kurzgesagt video on YouTube where they consider the possibility that you will be every human and live every life. I can’t stop thinking about it. https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
I like your attitude, although you remind me somewhat of the title character in Jean de Florette (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091288/).