Widow Clicquot
audience Reviews
, 82% Audience Score- Rating: 2 out of 5 starsA bit jumpy, excessive and not always relevant flashbacks. No great drama despite wonderful story. Underwhelming
- Rating: 1 out of 5 starsNapoleonic 'Days of our Lives'. A turgid 90 minute exercise of sheer tediousness, moving from one scene of confected melodrama to the next. Take a minute to close your eyes and listen to just the script - it'll make you LOL it's so bad. Oh, and apparently, the War of the Sixth Coalition (1814) included a battle fought between French and Russian forces (replete with cannons!!) just over the hill from the Verve vineyards, 3km outside Reims. Wow! Better adjust the history books, now! Barbe-Nicole Clicquot's life story is worth the telling, an incredible woman in a man's world during the early 19th century. A person of great resilence and courage, her willingness to defy prejudice and flout convention changed the way champagne is made and built a wine empire in the process. Pity then this film plumbs the depths of every vomitous romantic movie-trope one can think of, the very antithesis of the subject it claims to represent. Ugh!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 starsThe focus of the film was not satisfying for me. Too much dreamy focus on her and her first husband, who seemed to have a mental illness. I was expecting how she developed the great champagne. The grapes, the process, the superior product. Unless you know the product already there was little to be learned.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 starsWhen it ended so abruptly with so many loose ends not even close to being tied up, I had to double check that this wasn’t a short series and that it actually HAD just… ended… like that. Such a beautiful setting and powerful female icon as the subject and all was wasted on flashbacks of the husband in the bad wig. Very major hardships came off as very minor inconveniences because the audience never got the chance to witness the solutions due to how quickly the movie bounced from one thing to another and then moved on to the next chapter without ending the present. I had assumed the whole point of making the movie was to explore HOW she turned things around for the vineyard and became a leader in the industry, etc. etc., and we didn’t even get to find that out. Disappointing to say the very least!!
- Rating: 1.5 out of 5 starsThis movie sure has all the earmarks of running out of money and being told to wrap it up before the story really unfolded... too bad because the subject is a good one and now it will have to wait a long time before someone decides to do it right!
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsAn intriguing historical biopic. Performances were very good - my issues lay with the direction and pacing, which seemed to drag at several points
- Rating: 2 out of 5 starsI really wanted to like this movie; because I liked the book and beyond that, Widow Clicquot is a big character living in big times. The movie did no justice to any of it - neither her, neither her times, it was a small unremarkable forgettable story that even took wrong liberties with important facts. Her champagne and her character deserve so much better and bigger art.
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsSlow but steady and subtle. Very French..and a good look into the Napoleanic period...good movie, worth the watch. Good insight into the Champagne too!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 starsVery slow to develop and then it bounces around in time, and worst of all one has no idea how it ends. That all being said, beautiful depiction of the Champagne region of France, good acting and a very interesting story about the best champagne in the world.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 starsBoring, overacted, boring, and unrealistic.