gudpaljoey-78582 An engaging movie with a story that's been addressed before but rarely with the believable performances as this one. I fell in love with the main characters, and even the minor ones, as the story is revealed of the beauty of farm life with it's many hardships. This is your life, everyone. This is a four star picture with a blurry fourth star because of a rush to the finish. I have to guess who is in the casket, which bothers me, but having to guess how the life of the girl and the old man will go on doesn't. The film may be criticized for its realistic portrayal of slaughter of animals, but I say, "get over it," and appreciate the great performances of the main characters.

lovealaska-agility WARNING! ANIMAL CRUELTY! I hate this movie with a burning passion! The amount of animal cruelty in this is crazy and is not appropriate for children. I watched this in school with no way to leave when I got uncomfortable. I am a Vegetarian, in this is cows being murdered that look to real to be fake. A pig brutally being slaughtered. I get that this is farm life and all but they didn't give the pig sedatives. NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN! I know I said it before but it's true. I would give this a ZERO out of 10 if I could. If it wasn't for the animal cruelty I would give it a 5 or 6. I'm just giving you guys a warning. It also contains a goat giving birth and having her yank on them to find them both dead. Again I know it's a part of life but just a warning.

writers_reign It's formulaic, of course, but the trick with formulas is to act as if they're NOT formulaic and play it as if it were the most original story that ever came down the Pike. And that's what we get here, a charming, dazzling and ultimately Moving film that explores as if for the first time age-old concerns. Serrault has been here before in Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud so this is a good time to deal with the six degrees of separation aspect. In 'Nelly' Serrault was the older man and Manu Beart the younger woman; in Manon des Source Manu Beart tended goats and here Mathilde Seigneur does the same thing. So much for trivia. They really put more than the usual five minutes thought into this one because the credits come up over breathtaking aeriel shots of the Vercours and you can see why so many English people are inspired to buy second homes in France or even move there entirely. This is reinforced when in the first sequence we cut to Sandrine (Seigneur) caught up in a traffic jam in Paris and looking thoughtfully at a travel poster of Vercours on a bus in front of her. This is economical storytelling and in the very next scene she is telling her mother of her decision to move to the Vercours - in the Rhone Alps - and become a goat-farmer. The mother can't understand, natch, why a girl born and bred in Paris and a successful computer instructor would want to give it all up to become a sort of recluse about town. So we get the argument out of the way in the first reel. Sandrine is a gifted student, one of the best in Agricultural school and soon she is ready to invest 450,000 Francs in a remote goat farm. The farm belongs to old Adrien (Michel Serrault) and he comes with it, at least til he can move into his new flat in Grenoble some 18 months away. We are now ready for the classic battle of Old versus New, Young versus Old, initial antagonism giving way to mutual affection. Like I said, we've seen it all before. But what we HAVEN'T seen before is two Class Acts like Serrault and Seigneur and what they serve up is pure DELIGHT. We are spared nothing, this isn't a Travelogue because after an idyllic Summer comes the Winter of Discontent, so bad that Seigneur seriously considers throwing in the towel. Essentially a two-hander that stands or falls by the the quality of the two pricipals it is also fleshed out with really strong support in the shape of Adrien's neighbor and contemporary, Sandrine's colleague from Paris and sometime lover, and her mother. This is the kind of movie that Hollywood has completely forgotten how to make and which the accountants who run the place wouldn't sanction anyway. Thank God the French and other European countries can still turn them out like this. 10/10

silverauk Sandrine Dumez (Mathilde Seignier) as a farmer and Adrien (Michel Serrault) the owner of the farm, make a debating couple about the future of the farmers in France. It is a hard job, why does a young wife as Sandrine Dumez choose for it? And why does she try to do it all alone? In her former nine to five job in an office as a teacher she was very good to. In her loneliness she has the time to appreciate nature and she lives in complete freedom and without attachment. Until the moment she encounters by accident a youth friend... Moving picture about the question of the choice in life between freedom in nature and companionableness in town.