Alternative Film Guide

News Corp.’s Big Boss Rupert Murdoch called "a flop" the Ridley Scott-Russell Crowe collaboration A Good Year, based on Peter Mayle’s novel about an Englishman’s life in the French countryside. French critics have been calling it other things — though anything but Good.

Via Kim Willsher’s article "A Good Year? It’s no vintage Scott, say French critics" in The [London] Guardian:

"Now the French press has lined up to put the collective boot into the film critics describe as ‘appalling,’ ‘cliched,’ a ‘pitiful Anglo-Saxon caricature of France’ and just plain ‘boring.’

"The newspaper Libération was scathing about A Good Year, titled Une Grande Année (A Big Year) in French. It accused Scott of leaving no cliche unturned and of pandering to British middle-class fantasies of life in France.

"’Appalling from start to finish, A Good Year collapses under the weight of cliches of an ochre-tinted Luberon made for a wealthy Anglo-Saxon elite,’ it blasted."

 

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Golden Globe Foreign-Language Film Nominees at the American Cinematheque

Berlin Film Festival’s First Six Films in the International Competition

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006 Winners

Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards - 2006 Nominations

 

 

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