Some films are watched, others are lived. Rose Bosch’s Avis de mistral, released in 2013 under the more tourist-friendly English title My Summer in Provence, unmistakably belongs to the latter. Modest in scope, ostensibly a family drama, it nevertheless luxuriates in landscape first, plot second. Here, the story serves the country rather than the reverse, and it is this gentle inversion that imbues the film with its quiet enchantment.
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