O Que nos Liga

It's a good movie. Simple story. Lighly touches the surface and still goes deep into your heart. No cliches.

No superpower. No fiction. Just simple human emotions. It includes some great ideas to compare the different generations, like when you see your young yourself and give him a hug. It brought back my younger years with my wife and childen. And the soundtracks are also really good. It starts slow. And it remains slow. Maybe this is why I like French movies.

Some people underestimate simple human emotions.

Then when they are in big emotional crisis, they aspire to it again and understand its importance in life. The French movies are good.

If you have siblings, this movie is a great reflection and portrayal of the struggles we each face finding our way in the world but also growing and changing within the family unit. There's questions about acceptance, love, growing up (maturing) and the changing responsibilities where we go from being looked after as children, to looking after parents. I think each of us will see ourselves in one of the siblings. Cliched? Maybe, but its a good portrayal of family life and growing up.

It is a long movie, but I honestly didn't mind and I didn't find it tedious. The acting is superb. The scenery is beautiful and there's good character development along the way.

Family reunification in the beautiful countryside of Borgogne, France, where the two brothers and the sister meed themselves in the old family house among the vaste vineyards. They have to deal with the past and plan the future, following the father's death. Not really a compelling plot, but a pleasant family comedy, where the passion for wine is celebrated with continous tastings. The settings are suggestive and the product is well-finished.

The beginning of the movie is particularly derivative: the would be black sheep of the family back in his native land after years around the world, this is as old as the hills , like the prodigal son of our Sunday school ;of course he thought his dad did not like him (which of course is not true),of course his marriage in Australia runs into difficulties ...cliché to end all the clichés...

Fortunately the movie has other qualities: the cinematography is splendid indeed ,filming on location in the Burgundy vineyard is awesome ;the grape harvest (with the exception of the scene when the harvesters fight with bunches of grapes ,a harvester would never do such a thing,and I know what I'm talking about!)atmosphere is well recreated ,particularly the feast which celebrates the end of the picking.

Besides ,the father who bequeaths his earth in jointly-held ownership to his children ,it's quite convincing : in Zola's "La Terre" , the father ,who was not still dead when he retired,did not go about it in a different way.

In fact,Juliette and Jeremie are much more endearing characters than their eldest sibling.Juliette is a modern woman, we perceive her firm independence of men ,when she leads her harvesters through her vineyard.Jérémie ,a family man ,is still under his father-in-law's thumb, a he-man who 's got plans for him . Juliette is not going to let herself be pushed around by this in-law who has his eye on her valuable property ;but it will take time before her brother rebels ,although stammering out his angry replies.

On the other hand ,when Jean 's wife and their adorable child appear ,all become so predictable that,without his siblings , the screenplay would lose much of its interest.

Beautiful pictures, but an uneven screenplay.

It is an excellent movie that made me experience a lot of feelings. Definitely, needs to be watched by people. All the interactions between the main characters make the public feel really involved with the movie. The director really did an effort in applying the best technology for the elaboration of the movie.