I’m a big fan of movies. Of all sorts, really..I can’t really nail down an exact genre of films that appeals to me more than others. Every once in a while, a film comes a long that just grips me, holds my attentions and sparks my passion and intrigue. I can name a handful of films right now, off the top of my head: The Red Violin (Violon rouge, Le), Man on Fire, Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Lucky Number Slevin, The Constant Gardner, The English Patient – - and to throw a little fetish and change into the mix, Kinky Boots and Fight Club.. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head right now – - there are masses of others that makes it very difficult for me to name just ONE favorite movie of all time, whenever I’m presented with those questionnaires that ask me to do so.
A Good Year; Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard
I added a new film to my LOVE list lately – and I actually knew that this film was on my love list before this post, but I think it took my watching it again over the weekend for me to consciously decide that this was the case. With this film – it’s a few things about it.
The movie is called “A Good Year” and stars Russell Crowe, One of the very last great lines of the movie was when Marion Cotillard’s character, Fanny, is taking Russell Crowe’s character, Max’s order at the cafe – she asks him what he wants and he replies:
I want a bottle of wine that tastes like you . . . in a glass that is never empty
Ok – I know, it sounds trite, but you would have had to have watched the entire film. The line gets me every single time.
Without giving the entire film away – because I really think you should watch it…the film is about a man who is on the top of his game as a high level stockbroker in a very fast, stress filled lifestyle. His uncle dies and has left a quaint French chateau with a winery that Max is now faced with having to fix up and sell, so he travels to France to get it done. While there, he finds himself on a journey of self-discovery, love, family, childhood memories, food and wine. In the end, it dawns on him. . . what good is all the money from your hard work in the world if you are not able to stop and enjoy the fruits of your labor from time to time?
The movie makes me want to move to France (gasp!), buy a winery and spend long lazy days in the sun sitting on the patio drinking wine and eating food dipped in rich olive oil, in the company of interesting friends and people I love. Every single time I watch that movie, I look at my husband and say “Hey, lets move to France??” – him, being British, will, of course, have nothing to do with thoughts of moving to France – - it’s against his very nature. Although, he does pull out the “I want a bottle of wine that tastes like you…in a glass that is never empty” line out every once in awhile, just to keep me happy. Heh. 
Good luck with it.
8:54 pm on August 10th, 2008
Adding this to my list of “must see” movies!
9:02 pm on August 10th, 2008
You’ll have to let me know how you liked it
Obviously, its one of my favorites! Then again, my family always tells me that I have *odd* taste in films…so I don’t know if my movie reviews can be trusted by the general public haha 
9:11 pm on August 10th, 2008
You sucked me in with this line: “what good is all the money from your hard work in the world if you are not able to stop and enjoy the fruits of your labor from time to time?”
9:38 pm on August 10th, 2008
Chick Flick Alert! My Wife will love it, and I’ll be a hero. Yay! Thanks Lisa!
Max: “This place just doesn’t suit my life.”
Fannie: “Your life doesn’t suit this place.” Awesome. I might even like this movie.
9:43 pm on August 10th, 2008
@Brian – it does have some ‘chick flick’ tendancies..so, for sure you’ll be a hero to your wife. I think you will like it, too — my husband likes it and he’s pretty quick to put up the ‘chick flick’ radar lol
10:53 pm on August 10th, 2008
My wife and I have wanted to see this. It looks really good. Thanks for providing the video movie trailer on this too. Things like that really make a difference. I remember when it was about near impossible to watch video clips online, now these things load up like it’s nothing.
11:07 pm on August 10th, 2008
Call me sentimental – I truly love this film
Let me know how you and Angie like it, Garry.
BTW, I also like when people make posts about movies they like and include the trailer along with it, gives it that extra bit of information needed to seal the deal
12:29 am on August 11th, 2008
A Good Year was awesome! It crept up on me on a lazy Sunday several months ago and I couldn’t believe I didn’t remember ever hearing about it. It seems like a Russell Crowe / Ridley Scott movie would have been on my radar.
Additionally we have a very similar favorite movie list. I would add maybe “Requiem for a Dream” and “Mongol.”
2:09 am on August 11th, 2008
@K – a lazy Sunday is the absolute best time for this movie to sneak up on you – excellent
It was not a big box office hit… it flew under everyones radar, actually..which makes it even better 
Will have to look up the other two films you’ve mentioned. thanks!
3:43 am on October 12th, 2008
I saw this film just before moving to France to live myself, perhaps why I really enjoyed it and I didn’t even have the wife with me when I watched it.
6:57 pm on January 14th, 2009
It is a fact, this movie is like advertisement for France. I am sure it wasn’t intended to be that way but it really makes me want to visit one day.
7:11 pm on January 14th, 2009
Wow, this thread continues! Another good chick flick you guys might be able to endure and get lucky with… “The Wedding Date” with Debra Messing (Will & Grace), and Dermot Mulroney. Not as funny as the trailers, but entertaining nevertheless. Wine, cheese, this movie, your in!