"You must change your life" ---Rilke.

Nothing extraordinary, except for the engrossing theme of a white-collar young woman making a break with her former professional life---to be a farmer, and the breath-taking locale in French Alps......

Oh, did I say "nothing extraordinary"?

OK, a good subject, and good cinematography; so sure-handed is the now-panning, now-still camera that it is really hard to believe this is the debut of a young film-maker. Mathilde Seigner, who also played the wife in the horror movie, "With a Friend Like Harry", is radiant as the heroine, Sandrine, in a way that only Frenchwomen are able to manage---none of the commercial gloss of your Hollywood sweetheart, but a sophisticated, earthy, pragmatic, and "plausible" glamour that pulls you in. Also like many French actress, she dares to let herself look plain, or even ugly, from time to time, which only makes her mesmerizing to look at in moments of transient radiance that emanates health, youth and self-assurance.

But a very mediocre story, which is, again, surprising for a new talent; you would have thought that, being new to the game, he/she would be better equipped to steer clear of the cliches. Not this time.
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