The problem with this film is that its central female character, Manon, is a kind of symbol and not a woman. The woman who I think matters in it is not her but Florette, whose life and death of repression and flight from the shame that births her son, Jean, and who generates the film’s … More Motion picture storytelling at its best: Claude Berri’s story of multiple competing male obsessions in his ‘Jean de Florette’ & ‘Manon des Sources’ films.