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Back to Burgundy

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Movie Details: Jean (Pio Marmai) left his native Burgundy and the family wine business a decade ago to travel
Jean (Pio Marmai) left his native Burgundy and the family wine business a decade ago to travel around the world. The black sheep of the family, he unexpectedly returns home to reconnect with his ailing father. When Jean’s father dies, his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot) takes over the reins of the “domaine” together with their younger brother, Jérémie (François Civil), who has recently married into one of the region’s more prestigious wine families. As the business is transferred to theJean (Pio Marmai) left his native Burgundy and the family wine business a decade ago to travel around the world. The black sheep of the family, he unexpectedly returns home to reconnect with his ailing father. When Jean’s father dies, his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot) takes over the reins of the “domaine” together with their younger brother, Jérémie (François Civil), who has recently married into one of the region’s more prestigious wine families. As the business is transferred to the children, a prohibitive inheritance tax must be dealt with. As four seasons and two harvests unfold, emotional and work-related conflicts erupt which will force the siblings to reinvent their relationships and their own life choices if they are to survive as a family and a business. Expand
Genre(s): Drama Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Production: Canal+
Runtime: 113 min
Home Release Date: Jun 26, 2018
Countries: France FR
Languages: English French Spanish
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Metascore Mixed or average reviews
6 Positive Ratings 46%
6 Mixed Ratings 46%
1 Negative Ratings 7%
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G. Allen Johnson | Mar 22, 2018
"A film so rich and pleasurable you’d be forgiven if you thought about it each time you have a glass of red." ... Read full review
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Kenneth Turan | Mar 29, 2018
"Warm without sacrificing integrity, pleasant but not to a fault, Back to Burgundy is satisfying rather than earth-shaking." ... Read full review
80
Peter Debruge | Apr 5, 2018
"Though not a documentary, this gorgeous French family saga benefits enormously from Klapisch’s natural curiosity, informed by research (he participated in a harvest in order to observe its nuances) and elevated by his insistence that they film over the course of a full year, so as to capture the impact of the seasons on both viticulture and its human stewards. " ... Read full review
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Boyd van Hoeij | Mar 19, 2018
"This story of sibling camaraderie and familial strife at a Burgundy winery unfolds against the backdrop of reliably picturesque views, with its bouquet of largely familiar elements presented with a modern finish." ... Read full review
50
"The seductive scenery in this French film will sink its hooks into any hungering soul, and the window into the winemaking process it offers will stimulate the juices of any armchair oenophile. But the dramatic core of Cédric Klapisch’s Back to Burgundy is pure boilerplate." ... Read full review
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Wes Greene | Mar 18, 2018
"Cédric Klapisch correlates wine’s complex arrangement of flavors to the complexity of memory itself, which, it should be said, is the most nuanced of the filmmaker’s wine metaphors. " ... Read full review
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Simon Abrams | Mar 22, 2018
"There doesn’t seem to be a romantic-comedy cliché missing from the bland French domestic Back to Burgundy, a wholly contrived post-adolescent coming-of-age yarn." ... Read full review
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User Score Generally favorable reviews
3 Positive Ratings 60%
2 Mixed Ratings 40%
0 Negative Ratings 0%
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fredericwood
Jun 5, 2018
Enjoyable and moving. The attachment to the land, and the love that bonds the siblings. Maybe a little melodramatic at times. The film itselfEnjoyable and moving. The attachment to the land, and the love that bonds the siblings. Maybe a little melodramatic at times. The film itself is like a bottle of light and drinkable wine. Expand