"Madam Clico". Love, risk, war, scam: As a French widow created an empire of champagne

The tape liked the press and viewers: on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator, critics have 87%, 88%in the audience. The charming American Galey Bennett ("Great Evier") was able to play not only a woman in love, but also a risky entrepreneur, capable of both inventing advanced technologies and resorting to scams that scare law -abiding men. However . . . who does not risk, he does not drink the champagne "Widow Klik". British director Thomas K. Nepper initially built a movie as a love story.

François Clico (Tom Sterridge) with his young wife Nicole is given to the same love, missed through their passion for winemaking. They read the poems of grape vines, quote Voltaire and mix different varieties of wines, achieving the perfect blend. "And what do you associate with this taste?" Asks right in Francois, stretching Nicole a glass with white wine. She lost: "With the smell of flowering roses and burning autumn branches.

" Bingo! Both winemakers are happy! This love-wine child lasts for a long time, and then the death of a man sharply occurs. Nicole was only twenty -seven then. Following the funeral, Filip Clicko (Ben Miles), who, in fact, founded the wine house, immediately ordered the vineyards of the late son. However, the young widow did not want to hear anything: she indicates that François had been commanding her vineyards, and she is determined to continue his family business.

And he is not afraid to go out into the fields, to dirty in the mud, well -groomed handles - that the business of a loved one exists! Nicole heroically delves into the essence of wine production, tries to enlist the trust of the peasants, thinks over technologies, mixes and tries different varieties of wines, fights the sediment in the bottle-in general, in a serious way in a serious way in the once prosperous business.

But here Flashbeck: François screams something, lies in the rain, threatens heaven. It is clearly not in shape. Nicole Barb Clico-Possarde sends a daughter somewhere, "so that the baby does not see him so. " It turns out that François had attacks of mental illness and the actual things to produce champagne wines were far from as brilliant as we were shown.

The film was made behind the book by American writer Tillar Matseo "The Widow Klicko: The History of the Wine Empire and its Empress" (2008), which became a bestseller in the United States. It is difficult to say how the authors of the film have blocked it to maintain interest in the film story, but in some places the plot logic itself contradicts itself. Nepper seems to give first one - a more idealized version of events, then it deny it.

However, the director constantly tries to focus on one thing - on the passionate novel of two champagne lovers - François and Nicole. The history of the formation of champagne wines is constantly thinned by flashbecks on love theme. This is probably the main drawback of the picture.

The director did not resolve the question: he wants to focus on Francois and Nicole Kliko's love, or more - on creating a brand? However, more exciting moments are concerned in the tape, still formation of champagne empire. For example, the fact that Madam Kliko decided to spit on Napoleon's decree in 1811, where he forbade the import of French wine. The widow did not stop it, she ordered the front line - for deliveries of champagne abroad.

The mother -in -law, an experienced diller, did not grasp a little when he learned about it. What happened of it, I will not say - look. The tape has time to give an idea of ​​the solid and gambling nature of Nicole. Moreover, if you think that the widow was risked and champagne drank immediately, no - everything turned out to be much more difficult. The world history of winemaking included a brand of champagne click called "Comet" - it was just hung in heaven in 1811.

The comet was a bad sign: France was waiting for a collapse. The film shows how Nicole workers hide in the cellars of champagne boxes so that they are not plundered by looters. But there is no famous Madame Kliko phrase in the movie: "Let them pull - then buy. " So it happened: after the loss in the war, the turnover of the champagne "Widow Kliko" has increased repeatedly.

Many European aristocrats have sampled! The film's romantic and business line intersect organically in the court scene, where brazen competitors are trying to select a successful business in Nicole, saying that she, they say, "sings vine". Actress Galey Bennett will be particularly beautiful and touching in this episode: to look at everyone! However, know that after the movie you want to put champagne immediately.