Review of A Good Year (2006) by Cecilia C — 13 Mar 2009
This film transported me to Provence?body, mind and spirit. It is a charming, fun-loving film that made me not only want to go to Provence, but wanted to buy a chateau and vineyard there. And of course, fall in love and live out my days there.
Will any of this happen? Probably not, but watching A Good Year will bring all of us about as close to those things as we?re ever going to get. Unlike the film Under the Tuscan Sun...another film adaptation of a nonfiction book about life in a romantic, sun-filled world.
..this movie really brought the region and its people and its sense of romance to life. And when I say romance, I do not only mean love. I mean a romantic feel in the charm and the general air of the locale.
Basically, the romance of life. In this story, the Russell Crowe character has a life with NO romance in London. He?s money-driven and career-obsessed. He even has lost touch with his expatriate uncle who had a winery in Provence where Crowe?s character used to vacation as a child.
Why did he lose contact with the uncle? Well, because money and his job and his quest to be the best got in his way. After his uncle passes, he finds out the chateau has been left to him. Most people (myself, most definitely) would jump at the chance to live in France rent-free but, of course, this just gets in the Crowe?s character?s way in his pursuit of power.
Once he gets there, though, it is another matter. And that?s pretty much the power Provence has over someone even as career-minded as Crowe. And it?s also pretty much the same power this film had over me.
This review of A Good Year (2006) was written by Cecilia C on 13 Mar 2009.
A Good Year has generally received positive reviews.
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