The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
Nicholas Farrell
- Jean-Remy Moet
- (as Nick Farrell)
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- TriviaIn July 2010, Finnish divers found 168 bottles of champagne beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Åland. The bottles were sent back to France for analysis. Forty-six were identified as Veuve Clicquot. When the wine was tasted in 2015, several of them were still drinkable, well-preserved thanks to the cold and dark conditions at the depth. A bottle of nearly 200-year-old Veuve Clicquot broke the record for the most expensive champagne ever sold. In 2011, a bidder paid EUR30,000 for one of them found in the Baltic Sea.
- GoofsAt the end of the movie it's stated that Barbe Nicole passed away at 89. But in fact she passed away at 88.
- Quotes
Barbe Nicole: Looking back on that first day with you, i think I undestood immediately why humans beings are compelled to create. why we must find some way to lay down our lives, however best we can. It is so the we might uncover the secrets of ourselves, better understand the ones we love.The time and place in which we live. And that with any luck, 100 Years from now, someone will know that we were here.
Featured review
Haley Bennett turns in a reasonable effort here as the eponymous lady who has to keep control of her late husband's vineyards at a time in history when Napoleon's wars were raging throughout Europe - and France wasn't doing so well, by this point - and his laws prohibited women from managing so much as a dinner party. The death of François (Tom Sturridge) has left her a property that her former father-in-law Philippe (Ben Miles) is keen to sell to the neighbouring Mr. Moet but with a bit of help from accountant "Edouard" (Anson Boon) and roguish distributor "Droite" (Paul Rhys) she is determined to develop her own brand of Champagne and, probably more precariously, get the stuff to the well-heeled markets readily prepared to pay through the nose for wine without the "frog-eyed bubbles". The framework is here for a good story, depicting the struggles of a woman - and a father - coming to terms with an untimely death amidst a wartime environment. We do learn a little, via flashback, that her marriage was loving but that her husband became mentally ill putting huge stress on this woman and on their young daughter but the dramatisation is rather let down by a typically uninspiring performance from Sturridge and some quite weak storytelling. Certainly, the film looks great and it illustrates well the difficulties in getting the vintage grown in the first place before bottling these mobile explosive devices and taking them, by wagon, to market and it's quite richly scored by Bryce Dessner, but director Thomas Napper has over-relied on the aesthetics of the film and put too little into the characterisations of a woman who clearly knew her own mind and was not going to let her beloved husband's legacy disappear - even at the risk of bankruptcy. It's worth a watch, but a cinema screening doesn't really add much value to this undercooked period drama that just lacked, well, fizz.
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- Aug 28, 2024
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La viuda de Clicquot
- Filming locations
- Château de Béru, Yonne, France(multiple locations)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,023,984
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $185,531
- Jul 21, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $3,710,563
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.30:1
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