There are only two comments here on this movie and if I'm honest that's probably all it deserves. In my case the selling point was primarily Marina Fois, an actress I admire, and, as a bonus, Bulle Ogier, another fine actress who seldom lets you down. Whilst it didn't bother me as much as it did the other two viewers I am happy to concede that the director failed to extract much mileage out of the 'let's-get-away-from-the-big-city-and-de-stress-in-the-country theme, an old warhorse that I at least (and just off the top of my head) can trace back to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House just after World War 2. In more recent times Mathilde Segnier starred in a great movie on the same subject; for reasons best known to themselves the distributors decided that the French title, which translates as One Swallow Doesn't Make A Summer, would be lost on English audiences and re-named it The Girl From Paris but under any title it was a great movie. This, on the other hand, even with Fois and Ogier, tends to be lacklustre.
Review of Bienvenue au gîte
