School teacher, Antoinette (Laure Calamy) sings and dances at the idea of spending a week's vacation with Vladimir, her lover (Benjamin Lavernhe).
At the last minute, he tells her that he is leaving with his wife and child on the path taken by the writer Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes in 1878. Without thinking, Antoinette decides to join the man she loves madly. , reserve a donkey named Patrick to accompany him.
His path will be strewn with pitfalls, various discoveries and unexpected encounters.
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Antoinette in the Cévennes
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"
Need a breath of invigorating air?
Run to see
Antoinette in the Cévennes ”advises Nathalie Simon in the columns of
Le Figaro
.
The journalist enjoys the film with Laure Calamy.
“
The heroine alone is worth the trip.
Labeled Cannes Film Festival 2020, Caroline Vignal's comedy “donkey-movie” gives joy to the heart
”.
For Céline Rouden and
La Croix
,
Antoinette in the Cévennes
is a "
pretty initiatory story, funny and sensitive
", composed of a "
gallery of tasty secondary roles
".
As for Laure Calamy, the actress “
deploys the full range of her talent there.
Fearing neither ridicule nor emphasis, she turns out to be funny, pathetic, moving, constantly on the edge between laughter and tears.
"
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What matters for Antoinette is her desire, even if it means taking walls
"
"
Hilarious
", the first scene of the film conquered Catherine Balle du
Parisien
who finds in this comedy a "
crazy charm."
This sparkling film paints the portrait of a woman on edge, fragile and determined, above all free.
Solar, Laure Calamy treats us at every shot: we would follow her everywhere, on foot, on horseback… or on a donkey.
"
Laure Calamy delighted critics including
La Voix du Nord
.
Christophe Caron admires his "
richness of play which includes self-mockery, it gives to this portrait of a woman an air of soft fantasy which thwarts the forecasts
".
An opinion shared by Olivier De Bryn of the newspaper
Les Échos
, “
this little marvel offers Laure Calamy the best role of her career.
Caroline Vignal draws up the fanciful and sensitive portrait of a woman in love who tries her hand at long-distance hiking
”.
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For Clarisse Fabre du
Monde
and Fabrice Leclerc of
Paris Match
, Antoinette in the Cévennes is akin to “
a vaudeville in a rural environment
”.
“
Hilarious emancipation story
” for one, “
acerbic painting of small human arrangements, finely disguised under a vaudeville and road-movie varnish
” for the other, the film is “the
nugget of the new season
”.
Antoinette in the Cévennes
"
tells with an insight that never fools the vision of both sexes on this woman who came alone for a hike
" according to Thierry Chèze from
Première
.
The journalist is charmed by a Laure Calamy who "
deploys a range of games that she had never had the opportunity to show until then with accuracy and enthusiasm
" in this film which is decidedly established as "
the nugget of this return
”.
