Jean de Florette (1986)

Gérard Depardieu: Jean de Florette

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• Ugolin : Is that why you rented this old farm?

  Jean de Florette : I didn't rent it.

  Ugolin : Did you buy it?

  Jean de Florette : I didn't buy it either, but it's all mine.

  Ugolin : You're not Jean de Florette, are you?

  Jean de Florette : 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.

• Jean de Florette : I also own a spring.

  Ugolin : What spring? Where?

  Jean de Florette : It's marked on the land register. Come and take a look. Maybe you can help me locate it.

• Jean de Florette : I'm a hunchback! Have you forgotten that? Do you think that's easy?

  Aimee Cadoret : Jean...

  Jean de Florette : 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.

• Aimee Cadoret : So you won't sell?

  Jean de Florette : Of course not! 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!

• Jean de Florette : Look at these giant thistles! Look at the house!

• Jean de Florette : Ugly exteriors often conceal the purest souls.