Coup de foudre en Bretagne

Wood worker Moriah (Rachelle Lefevre) dreams of restoring the old lighthouse in her small seaside French town. Ben (Luke Macfarlane) arrives in town with plans of his own. She hits him with her bicycle. I like the French location. The story is fine for a Hallmark romance. This could be a nice romance but one thing keeps bugging me. Lefevre is playing a French girl. She may be well-skilled in French but the audience have seen her speak perfect English. In this, she's speaking English with that fake French accent and it's weird. My brain keeps telling me that she's faking this. The last thing I want from my brain is it telling me that it's all fake. Everything else is secondary.

The scenery was incredible. I had to check that indeed it was filmed in France, and not somewhere in Canada. I was relieved it was.

I like these two, two of my favorites but they didn't sell this very well. It seemed forced. Her French accent was horrible. At one time she was painting furniture with a brush and I was thinking that should be stained, with a rag. And then in another scene, she WAS staining it with a rag. The production wasn't the best.

But, I enjoyed it, wish I could have rewarded it with higher rating.

I love Luke MacFarland and Rachelle LeFevre. And he was his usual charming self. She was not at all believable. Her fake accent was grating and seeing her "working" on an antique wooden chest wearing a shoulder less blue sweater and a leather apron was laughable. I struggled to stay interested in spite of the beautiful scenery and architecture. They just weren't enough to compensate for the lousy storyline and fake accents.

This one misses the mark on almost every occasion. The actors' didn't maintain their French accents consistently. The attempts at comedy fell flat. The main conflict (Moriah getting upset that a house she doesn't own is being renovated) is lame. The French Resistance storyline shoehorned in made no sense. I sensed zero chemistry between Luke and Rachel. Just a mess of a movie, unfortunately.

She may have grown up in Montreal and perhaps even spoke French however her accent comes & goes throughout the film. I love this actor so I'm disappointed that she didn't carry off the correct accent or keep the poor accent consistently. But the scenery is lovely.