There are films one watches, and there are films one inhabits. Rose Bosch’s Avis de mistral, released in 2013 under the rather more touristic English title My Summer in Provence, belongs unmistakably to the second category. It is a modest work, ostensibly a family drama, that nevertheless allows itself the luxury of being primarily a landscape, and only secondarily a plot. The story serves the country, not the other way around, and this inversion is the source of whatever quiet enchantment the film achieves.
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