The wine and the wind

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Movie
German title The wine and the wind
Original title Ce qui nous lie
Country of production France
original language English , French
Publishing year 2017
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
JMK 6
Rod
Director Cédric Klapisch
script Cédric Klapisch,
Santiago Amigorena
music Loïc Dury ,
Christophe Minck
camera Alexis Kavyrchine
cut Anne-Sophie Bion
occupation

The wine and the wind (original title: Ce qui nous lie ) is a French feature film from 2017 , which can be assigned to the genres of drama and comedy , directed by the French director Cédric Klapisch . The film started in German cinemas on August 10, 2017.

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Jean, Juliette and Jérémie are three adult siblings. You are the offspring of a small family winery in Burgundy, France . Her mother died five years before the act began. The life of the three siblings developed differently. The eldest of the three siblings, Jean, emigrated after conflicts with his father, traveled the world and bought a winery in Australia, where he lives with his girlfriend Alicia and their young son.

The young married Jérémie lives with his small child with the parents of his wife Océane. Juliette is single, dedicates her life to wine and stayed with her father on her parents' winery.

When the father of the three siblings unexpectedly dies, Jean returns to his parents' winery after ten years of absence. After the funeral, it's about the inheritance and the payment of inheritance tax of 500,000 euros. The payment of this amount seems to be possible only through a partial sale of the winery. While they organize the grape harvest together, the private problems of the three siblings also come to light. Jean falls out with his Australian girlfriend Alicia and tries to save his relationship over the phone. His younger brother Jérémie feels tied up by his in-laws, stuck in the corset of the bourgeois family world. Juliette has serious ambitions to continue her father's business, but she is alone, insecure and suffers greatly from her father's death.

At the end of the film, all problems can be resolved. At the suggestion of his friend Alicia, Jean explains that the tax will be financed by a partial sale of the wine warehouse of his winery in Australia. In return, his two siblings should transfer him an annual lease for two parts of his parents' winery, which Jean will keep, but Juliette and Jérémie will be responsible for managing it.

All three protagonists find their place at the end of the film. Jean returns to live with his girlfriend Alicia and their son at the winery in Australia. Jérémie moves out with his Océane and their son with their in-laws. Juliette remains on her parents' winery and continues the business.

Reviews

The film The Wine and the Wind received positive reviews. Johannes Bluth said, for example, that The Wine and the Wind is something like a family visual experience. "While watching you become part of the family, you are sometimes annoyed, bored, but you always feel the warming foundation of mutual love." The drawing of the characters is the great strength of the film, in which Klapisch succeeds, deep into the fears and Desires to immerse themselves in the beauty and inadequacy of their protagonists and to make them understandable. Bluth writes: “Almost every conversation, every look, every affect seems absolutely unsophisticated and emotionally weighty. This is also due to the interesting cast, who manage without any big names. ”He sums up:“ The wine and the wind is not a feel-good movie, although one likes to follow the story with pleasure and Jean, Juliette and Jérémie swiveling wine and passionate arguments. It is a serious lightness that triggers something like cathartic effects while watching and soothingly lays itself on irritated areas like an essential candy. No grandeur, no grand gesture - the wine and the wind is everyday cinema, in the best sense of the word. "

The German Press Agency (DPA) said that the director succeeded in depicting nature and viticulture in the course of a harvest year more impressively than the relationship and development network of the siblings Jean, Juliette and Jérémie. But she also stated that a long time can easily turn into boredom for the audience. But "wine freaks should enjoy seeing how red and white grape juice is still produced in the Unesco world heritage region of Burgundy: on small plots, with laborious manual (and foot) work and a lot of ancient knowledge."

Sascha Westphal from epd Filmdienst said: “Wine is not just a reflection of the weather and the soil, it also reveals the personality of its creator. In the ideal case, man and nature, progress and tradition become one in it. Klapisch strives for this harmony, and in a few moments and scenes he achieves it. ”Cinema.de attests that the film is entertaining to watch, even if it lacks a narrative focus. In return, the viewer learns a lot about the secrets of wine, and many would go home thirsty. Overall, the film is a melancholy, sensual comedy about the young operators of a rural winery.

Margret Köhler from the Münchener Abendzeitung was of the opinion that Klapisch succeeded in creating an almost fairytale-like staging in the cycle of nature, with delicate spring colors alternating with gentle hills bathed in summer sun, deep autumn red and a white winter landscape. She drew the following conclusion: “In a documentary style and with a lot of local color, the film tells a very precise story between joie de vivre and melancholy, about the management of a winery, about family conflicts and local ties. The fact that he sometimes gets tangled up in wine jargon doesn't spoil the mood. At the end of the day you will enjoy this Feel-Good-Movie like a good drop with a fine, persistent and fresh, intense and soft bouquet . Ideal for an evening at the cinema followed by a Grand Cru from Burgundy. "

Joachim Kurz from the portal for film and cinema kino-zeit.de was of the opinion that the film was a dignified narrative cinema for the generation of arthouse cinema-goers who had been in Klapisch's semester abroad film L'auberge espagnol - Barcelona for a year in 2002 poured in and who have aged by 15 years since then, like the protagonists at the time. In conclusion, Kurz wrote about the film and its director: “In a way, the filmmaker Cédric Klapisch is similar to the people he talks about: He is a solid craftsman with a good nose for the taste (s) of an audience who do not innovate from cinema wants, but above all variations of the familiar. And that is exactly what 'Der Wein und der Wind' delivers reliably and predictably: If his film were a wine, it would certainly not be a Grand Cru, but a down-to-earth plant, in which you can feel the effort as well as connoisseurship - and yet besides everything expected a certain depth is not neglected. "

Knut Elstermann from MDR Kultur noted the following in his assessment of the film: “Klapisch cleverly mixes in these work processes the conflicts of his characters, the memories of childhood, the tyrannical father and the lost sibling cohesion, but also the current struggle between ancient tradition and the profitable Modern in viticulture. "His conclusion:" This pleasantly reserved film is not a heavy, momentous red wine, but a pleasant, light rosé . "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Wine and the Wind . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 169012 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Wine and the Wind . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Knut Elstermann: Film start “The Wine and the Wind”: A pleasant, light rosé . MDR. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d French family cinema: panning wine, coping with life , SPIEGEL Online. August 10, 2017. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Cinema starts of the week: “The Wine and the Wind” , Handelsblatt. August 10, 2017. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Sascha Westphal: review of the wine and the wind . epd film service. July 21, 2017. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ Film The Wine and the Wind . Cinema.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ AZ film review "The Wine and the Wind": Picturesque maturation process , Munich evening newspaper. August 10, 2017. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Joachim Kurz: The wine and the wind . Portal for film and cinema kino-zeit.de. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2017.