Back to Burgundy

Jean, who left the family vineyard in Burgundy a decade ago to travel and settled in Australia, comes home when his father falls ill. With his siblings Jérémie and Juliette he faces their father's death, the inheritance tax, and the thing none of them has said to the others for years. Cédric Klapisch directed. Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot and François Civil play the siblings. The film runs childhood flashbacks alongside the present, with the four seasons of the vineyard as its spine. Rotten Tomatoes sits at 70 percent, the consensus saying it finds its own subtle terroir in the well-trodden ground of family drama. Metacritic gives it 58. On a 9 million dollar budget it grossed 11.6 million worldwide. Who it is for: viewers who like calm films about wine, the countryside and siblings. Who it is not for: anyone wanting conflict. The tension between them never detonates, and the film means it not to.