An Exercise In Nonsense

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

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)

Enjoyable feel good picture. This movie gives you a nostalgic and warm feeling. Russel Crowe plays a successful man in a hectic modern world. The death of a near relative leaves him with a vineyard i France. When he arrives to the vineyard estate many childhood memories starts a necessary inner process he hasn't dealt with yet. Marion Cotillard plays a local french waitress and a humorous romance starts between them. An overall neutral movie for those who just like to watch an easy going movie that leaves you with a small warm feeling and a small smile on your face.

A really, really rich investment banker is faced with the choice of remaining a really, really rich investment banker or rejecting that life in order to become a merely really rich wine grower in the south of France. This is presented as an existential crisis. Other than that ridiculous premise, it's an entertaining film.

Just saw this movie today in 2016. Was fun to see it was from another era just by the look of the cellphone Russell was using. Great french version . The dubbing was flawless , made me wonder how it sounds in the original version. Does Russell Crowe speak french ?US viewers ought to know that under french law you can not write off your offspring from your will. That's why Yves Montand was exhumed a while ago. I would just hope that one day they hire actors who are from the actual country the role calls for ?Just one scene reminded me of "Great expectation ". The script is a known one but great job from the actors and the director.