Highly symbolic, Back to Burgundy at the Napa Valley Film Festival!

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Highly symbolic is the selection of Back to Burgundy, the latest movie by acclaimed French director Cédric Klapisch, at the upcoming Napa Valley Film Festival.

 

 

Back to Burgundy features Pio Marmai, Ana Girardot and François Civil. Let us quickly make the presentations...

 

Pio Marmai... we discovered him in the movie ''The first day of the rest of your life'', intense and moving. You may have seen him in movies like Alyah or Delicacy with Audrey Tautou

 

Ana Girardot... she is the daughter of renowned French actor, Hippolyte Girardot. You can discover her on Netflix with the movie, Next time I'll aim for the heart with Guillaume Canet.

 

And François Civil... he is part of the French serie, Call my agent, whose Season 2 just opened on Netflix. We highly recommend you to check it, very funny, very French, very Parisian!

 

 

Cédric Klapisch is one of the most popular director in France who has delivered a serie of movies that tell simple, beautiful stories, with characters who became references. With Back to Burgundy, he is offering a new story, about life, brother/sister-hood, about new start and becoming adults, the whole thing taking place in Burgundy in a Wine Domain.

 

 

The story briefly...

After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have to re-build their relationship and trust as a family again.


The trailer...
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Highly symbolic indeed since the parallel between this story of a new start in life and Napa after the tragedy seems obvious.
What you shouuld know...
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To attend the Napa Valley Film Festival, you have to buy a pass. There are so may different ones... 5 days, 3 days, 5 movies, daily passes...
Regarding Back to Burgundy, the French American Cultural Society has scheduled with the Festival team a special screening on Sunday, November 12, 2017. The screening will be followed by a lively on-stage conversation between charismatic vintner Jean-Charles Boisset (originally from Burgundy and owner of Raymond Vineyards in Napa Valley) and the Consul General of France in San Francisco, Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens.
-schedu> To buy your tickets, click here.
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BACK TO BURGUNDY (CE QUI NOUS LIE)
November 8 to 12, 2017
2 screenings in St-Helena and Yountville