A Good Year (2006)
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
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Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Movie Review: "A Good Year" (2006)This make-you-feel-good movie directed and produced by Ridley Scott is a very personal signature of the director, who recalls childhood memories with teenage character of Young Max, performed by at that time promising newcomer actor Freddie Highmore, known for "Finding Neverland" starring Johnny Depp; the boy, who gets raised in cultural manners by his Uncle Henry, here portrayed in a perfect-pitching performance by Albert Finney, at age 70, in manners of living-well without dying from life's obligation and constant pressure, when actor Russell Crowe takes over the stage to be London's stock-markets-pushing star broker number one Max Skinner, when his Uncle's inheritance becomes due in shape of the childhood reminiscence of a rural estate of planting grapes of French red wine.Director Ridley Scott plays his cards after the mammut-production of "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) with switching cinematography to Philippe Le Sourd, engaging vacation-indulging, dreamy visuals of further high-end digital color corrections; promoted production designer Sonja Klaus, organizing and dressing on-location sets of splendor towards sharing a life of leisure with any spectator by finding the professionally acted, nevertheless no high-pitch meeting collaboration between Russell Crowe and actress Marion Cotillard, given face to a local character as waitress-of-no-means, when "A Good Year" runs out after a suspenseless 110-Minutes-Cut by editor Dody Dorn, where even accelerated montage scene deny the audience a fever pitch of higher illuminations in this motion picture of tragic-comedy pleasures.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
Romance, Drama, English Man, French Woman, From London to French Provence, Between Banks and vineyard a total paradox! The movie is about dreams and memories from childhood that can turn out into unexpected way... But they stay the things that really matters and for which a person may really fight for! The cast is fantastic, Russell Crowe & Marion Cotillard are making a cute romance besides of other great stars and withing a sweet light comedy. I just Love this Movie !and I watched it several times, for me its inspiring, making me believe that every one can change his life and follow his dreams when it comes to find true love and the real meaning of life and happiness.
What one wouldn't give to own a vineyard in south-eastern France. What one wouldn't do to spend an evening with a beautiful French girl. Ridley Scott's A Good Year is a beautiful film about life and its endless bounties. It's a film that often goes unnoticed in the English filmmaker's body of work.In life we sometimes get so busy that we fail to recognize what we truly desire. We even forget how to really live our lives. Lost in this modern-day madness, we get reduced to the state of machines with no feelings or emotions. The movie revolves around a ruthless London-based banker named Max Shiner who following his uncle's death becomes the sole beneficiary of his French estate in Provence. He is so immersed in his corporate life that he doesn't even care to visit his uncle during his final days despite him being the only surviving family member. When he learns that he has inherited his uncle's property, Shiner travels to France at once with the hope of making a quick sale. But things don't exactly go according to plan and Shiner is stuck. The time he gets to spend at the estate makes him nostalgic as he fondly remembers his childhood. How his uncle had taught him to appreciate the finer things in life--all of which he seems to have forgotten owing to his busy life. Before too long he gets enchanted by a head- strong and beautiful French girl. But time is quickly running out. Shiner must now make a final call: to sell the property and return to London or to quit his job and settle down in Provence.A Good Year presents Russell Crowe in a very different light. For a change, we get to see his tender side. Crowe shares great chemistry with Marion Cotillard. One just can't afford to blink in between the scenes the two share. It's a pure delight to watch them play around, filling the air with passion and romance. It's impossible not to fall in love with them. The film is a testament to Ridley Scott's versatility as a filmmaker. Kudos to him for concocting a beautiful tale about life and for eliciting such memorable performances from all his actors.For more on the world of cinema, please visit my film blog "A Potpourri of Vestiges".
One of my favorite movies of all timesFirst of all, Max is a classic trader, brilliant, wealthy and arrogant, it provide he a great sense for business and trade money. Smart he know how to play with the market. Definitely he isn't the most adorable man in the City, for another hand is undeniable his talent to change the social status quo for his interests.Besides all it, he still is a great human, with a hearth to do good things, all the story change when he meets a beautiful woman with a strong ethical sense. Although his instinct sense for hunting, he is the prey, using all his charm and intelligence he start not just bring back a young prodigious boy, but a old, but not, forgot passion. He din't know but everything is already planned, in a mysterious way.The great lesson of this movies isn't about money, is about what a Good Years really is: a simple back to our pass with a evolution to our old dreams of kid.I strong recommend this movie.